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  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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