Yup, it's definitely fedora's fault, not my hardware.

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Nov 29 00:08:00 UTC 2004


Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:42 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>I have often seen flaky drive performance when a drive jumpered as
>>either master or slave is used on a cable select cable.
>>
> 
> 
> Oddly enough, I've never known that there was such a beast as a "cable-
> select cable" or a "non-cable-select cable" even though I've built at
> least 200 systems. I've just always jumpered drives as master/slave as
> required.
> 
> How would one detect which type of cable it is?

One of my UDMA cables has 2 different colored connectors (blue & black?) 
and can be used with Cable-Select....

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