At 02:19 PM 9/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Members of Pcbuild:
>
>I have a cd rom 32X max as a secondary master and
>would like to make it a secondary slave, putting
>it on same ribbon as 20 gb hard drive.
>The pins are now like so from left to right faceing
>the rear of drive : : [:] "The jumper on 3rd set of pins"
>No pin numbers, but stamped above the pins, CSM above
>
>SLA
>Where do I place the jumper?
>
>An additional question would putting the rom drive
>and hard drive on same ribbon have any bearing
>on the speed of hard drive? Thanks.
>
>Charles Alsop
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>http://users.tminet.com/alsopc/

Charles:
Further to Bob Wright's definitive answer to your question, I had the same
trouble understanding the   CSM and SLA  lettering on CD drives. Solution:
read down rather than across. CS stands for Cable Select; SL for Slave and
MA for Master.

Computer English?

Cheers,

Peter Darrach

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