On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:33 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
That is incorrect. Dell, for example, has used cable select in their
desktop PCs for years. I never had any problems with it, and I've owned
and added second hard drives to a couple of them.
I believe there were some IDE cables that didn't support cable select,
which may have led to the belief amongst some PC users that cable select
was problematic.
SATA gets rid of the whole master/slave/cable select issue anyway so
someday it'll just be an historical footnote--and good riddance. :)
-Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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