On 15/3/09 13:56, "Lawrence David Eden" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a new hard drive on order. I plan to install it into my B&W
> and after carbon copy, switch it to the master position. I am
> presently using a Quantum Fireball as my main drive. Interestingly,
> the B&W prefers me to set the jumper on CS instead of Master. The
> new drive is a Seagate Barricuda (3160815A) and should be faster than
> the Quantum.
>
> Question:
>
> I want to install the Seagate as a slave until I can do a carbon copy clone.
> Then I want to use the Seagate as my new Master and the Quantum as a slave.
> If the Seagate must be set to CS in order to work in my B&W, what
> should the jumper settings be for the Quantum?
>
> When I get the new drive, how do I set it to be the slave to the
> Quantum? The CS setting is somewhat confusing to me as it is neither
> Master of Slave.
As I understand it - cs stands for cable select which - in the case of
two devices on one ide cable both of which are set to cs - gives 'master' to
the device nearest the mobo and slave to the second device. Could be I'm
wrong - I haven't googled for it but that's what I always thought.....
Pete
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