I am running a Western Digital 30 gig 7200 rpm ATA100 drive with Win 98 SE, and it is the master with a CD-ROM slave on its channel.  I know Dell machines use CS, but outside of them, I've never heard that an ATA100 drive won't work unless set to CS.

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>>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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