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On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:56 PM, GDB-B&W-X.3.9 wrote:
On Aug 2, 2005, at 6:30 PM, G. E. Dearth wrote:
Snip...
As for cable select, this is a throw back to
the old days when special cables with a twist were used to denote
which
drive was which. As far as I know it's not used at all anymore.
Just a message from Doug...
Snip...
Sorry Doug, not so. My relatively new G4 MDD uses cable select - says
so in the handbook. And the CD drive in my sawtooth wasn't recognized
until I set it to cable select.
Gary
Trust me, as I have been working with/on these little demons since
1980 (that's 25 years for those of you with a public school
education), cable select has been around since the old MFM/RLL PC HD
days. A special cable was required so that drives would be recognized
differently on the same controller. When IDE/ATA drives came along,
CS was left as an option, but no one used it because of the problems
it led to in the PC world. Apparently, some young, no doubt brilliant
Mac engineer came along and thought how wonderful it would be to
actually use the CS option of the drive again. I guess it has
something to do with thinking differently. As an aside, PC floppy
drives still use this method to determine which is drive A and which
is drive B. Now aren't you happy that your new Mac is using 25 year
old PC floppy technology at long last?
Just a message from Doug...
P.S. I'm not really down on Apple all that much, as I said, I blame
the state of education in the U.S. for this fiasco!
--
Doug,
I think that there is one thing that you forgot, Apple has only been
doing IDE/ATA drives for about 6/7 years, so it will take them a little
time to catch up with MickyMouseSoft on this matter.
Best Regards, /\*_*/\
Harry (*^_^*)
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