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W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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>>> Determines if the drive is master or slave in the |
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>>> BIOS. |
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> ... |
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>> Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" |
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>> enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive |
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>> (which are prone to error). |
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> Maybe my memory is getting out of date (old age!) - but I thought you |
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> were supposed to avoid csel as it often didnt work correctly in a |
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> multidrive situation? So I have always manually set master/slave by |
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> jumper (almost all my systems are multi drive |
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> BillK |
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Same here on mine. My cables are straight through and I use the jumper |
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to select which is master/slave. My BIOS is always set to boot hd0 or |
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something like that. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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