W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: >> >>> Determines if the drive is master or slave in the >>> BIOS. >>> >>> > ... > >> Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" >> enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive >> (which are prone to error). >> >> > > Maybe my memory is getting out of date (old age!) - but I thought you > were supposed to avoid csel as it often didnt work correctly in a > multidrive situation? So I have always manually set master/slave by > jumper (almost all my systems are multi drive > > BillK > >
Same here on mine. My cables are straight through and I use the jumper to select which is master/slave. My BIOS is always set to boot hd0 or something like that. Dale :-) :-)
