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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:03:31
Message-Id: 1190854021.7659.26.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum by Albert Hopkins
1 On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
3 > > Determines if the drive is master or slave in the
4 > > BIOS.
5 > >
6 ...
7 >
8 > Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select"
9 > enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive
10 > (which are prone to error).
11 >
12
13 Maybe my memory is getting out of date (old age!) - but I thought you
14 were supposed to avoid csel as it often didnt work correctly in a
15 multidrive situation? So I have always manually set master/slave by
16 jumper (almost all my systems are multi drive
17
18 BillK
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>