You need an 80 wire cable. It still only has 40 pins on the connector, but
each wire has a ground wire paired with it to isolate noise and
interference. One end connector is blue and connects to the motherboard. The
other end connector is black and connects to the master drive and the middle
connector is grey and connects to the slave drive. Make sure you have the
drives jumpered for cable select. Then the drive on the end (black
connector) will be automatically set as master and the drive on the middle
(grey connector) will be set as slave.

Hope this helps.

Dennis Thiel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Changhsu P. Liu" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:50 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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