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James Knott wrote:
> Philippe Landau wrote:
>> Michael Fischer wrote:
>>   

<snip>

>>>     
>> Master/Slave was an obsession of the IDE protocol:
>> There you need to set a jumper on each hard disk
>> so that every IDE cable only has one master (and one slave),
>> or CS (cable select) both. Sata does not need this.
>>
>> Kind regards     Philippe
>>   
> Those master and slave jumpers are ancient.  For many years, the
> selection is determined by the cable.  If you use the end connector, the
> drive is the master.  If the middle connector, it's the slave.
> 
> 

Unfortunately, in my experience cable detection tended to be somewhat
unreliable ...  it may have improved since on newer drives... but has
given me much grief in the past....


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