On Jun 17, 10:37 am, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Ralph Green wrote:
> > Use CS if you are prepared to
> > have your computer guess which drive is which and whether you have the
> > right cable.
>
> There is no "guessing" involved.
>
> The drive which is connected to the black connector is master; the
> drive which is connected to the gray connector is slave.

Yes. Convenience  was the main reason I preferred using CS back
towards the end of the days when I was primarily using PATA drives.
Having to muck around with the master/slave jumpers every time I moved
a drive was extremely tedious & annoying.

Typically I would *always* drop a jumper while trying to change things
around.

At this point in my life my eyes don't function well enough to make
finding a jumper buried in a carpet in bad lighting a minor glitch.

But whatever works ... and to each their own ...

-irrational john
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