Far as I'm aware, so long as you use the newer 80 wire IDE cable, you should be ok
Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: Changhsu P. Liu
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Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Maxtor/Quantum jumper settings.
>
>description of them is correct. The website said it's mandatory that you use
>cable select with ATA100 drives or they won't work. I had never heard of
I'm confused about CS and found
http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/cablesel.htm with nice info. It
appears it needs a special cable to use cable select. I wonder how do I
know if my IDE cable is cable select compatible?
TIA,
Changhsu Liu
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