Re: Hard drives, cables, controllers: Cable Select, vs other ??
From: Rich Piotrowski (abuse_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 08/29/03
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:27:22 -0500
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:34:12 +0000 (UTC), mha@TheWorld.com (Martha H
Adams) wrote:
>I've been reading up on hard-drive technology, but I don't see an
>answer to one question.
>
>Do IDE hard drive controllers interchangeably control an old-style
>Master / Slave setup or a more current Cable Select setup, only by
>changing to the appropriate cable and doing appropriate setups on the
>HD's character setting pins? (i.e., Master, Slave, CS.)
I don't know the "facts" of this but I can relate some personal
experience. I have now several times run into a problem setting up
Master/Slave drives on a few computers with Western Digital drives. I
could only get them to be detected in the BIOS properly by jumpering
them to "cable select". I have no idea if this is a controller, BIOS
or drive issue so take it with a grain of salt. If all else fails, try
it!
>
>I ask this because, I think the small HDs used in laptops, only work
>in a Cable Select mode. So, if I want to put one of these, through an
>appropriate 2.5 in adapter, into a larger machine, the machine's HD
>hardware wants to also work in Cable Select. Which means, I need to
>changeover one of my machines to Cable Select.
>
>If I can do this, is not discussed in my current 14th edition of
>Mueller. The differences are described, but no mention there of
>whether either variety can be installed on a same existing
>conventional IDE controller.
>
>Help! Can someone fill-in the missing fact?
>
>Thanks -- Martha Adams
>
Rich Piotrowski
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