Is it a Dell?  Apparently there exist machines that still use cable select.
However, if you have a choice I'd say use the master/slave settings.  In the
manual for my WD 30 gig 7200 rpm drive (2/01), it refers to cable select as
being needed by some machines, but concentrates on the master/slave
settings.  My recollection is that the guy who started this thread just
wanted to know about cable select, which he could have found out by reading
his manual.  This is a point not really worthy of much discussion.  If I am
wrong and there are a lot of current machines, other than Dells, that still
use cable select, I'm sorry and stand corrected.

P.S. The use of cable select has absolutely nothing to do with whether you
have a P IV or P III.


I will have to not agree also. I just bought a Pentium 4 system and the hard
drive came jumpered for cable select. And I can't remember my old Pentium 3
system having that.

Neal Collins

  I can't agree, for three basic reasons:
>
> 1.  Dell routinely uses Cable Select on all their EIDE/ATAPI drives.
> You can change it, but they don't think you should need to.
>
> 2.  Cable Select *means* "do it without manually selecting
> master/slave.  It allows any drive to be plugged into any position
> and work; it requires cables with a twist (or other special feature)
> so that master and slave are associated with specific connectors
> rather than with the drive jumpers.
>
> 3.  There may be things in a computer that a given user doesn't
> understand, but there's no voodoo.  Eliminating jumpers will require
> something that takes their place, and that something is going to be
> understood by at least some of the members of this list -- who will
> be willing to try to explain it to anyone who asks.
>
> On 9 Jul 2001, at 19:16, Joel M. Blackman wrote:
>
> > It doesn't mean anything anymore.  Cable select hasn't been used
> > for some time.  Soon enough, slave and master will mean nothing,
> > that will all be done by the computer without setting jumpers.
> >
> >
> > Jumper settings for a hard drive include master, slave and cable
> > select. What does this mean?
>
>

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