Desperate situation

[Mike McCarty]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I wonder how may of the people that have "staunch positions" stick
> to one brand of drive? It may be that one brand works better with

I certainly don't. I have WD, Seagate, Maxtor that I can think
of right off the top of my head.

> Cable Select, and another brand works better with Master/Slave...

Connor used to be notorious for not working as slave with other
brands of drives. But that was long ago.

> When mixing brands, or mixing types of drives, I have not run into
> any firm rules. (I know, it is better not to mix brands/drive types,
> but sometimes you do not have a choice.) Things can get interesting
> when you only have 2 IDE channels, and you have a DVD, CD, hard
> drive, and an IDE floppy or tape drive in the same machine.

I suppose you mean ATA.

Mike
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