Hello Bob,

I am very  curious what does the Cable Select position do, anyways? It's
on all hard drives, but I've never seen it used - until yesterday when I
was helping a friend install a new CD burner. He has a fairly recent Dell
computer with Pentium II (?) and it had a CD ROM drive in it, and it was
set to the Cable Select position. I've never seen it used like that, so I
just left it set as Cable select, and put in the new HP burner as the
default of slave. I booted it up, and it worked. Both drives were
recognized and functioned fine.

So, again, what is the purpose of the Cable Select position?


- Hawk166_PWR (Michael Soto)
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:46:47 -0600 Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The designations of CSM stand for this:
>
> C = Cable select  (a rarely used format and should be ignored)
> S = Slave
> M = Master
>
> Any Bios written since the first of 1998 can compensate on a UDMA33
> controller for the difference in speed of ATA/IDE drives, so as long
> as your Bios is newer, you should be fine.  There have been reports,
> not that I can verify, that UDMA66 and 100 controllers can be slowed
> by CD Rom drives.
>
>     Bob Wright
> The NOSPIN group

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