Desperate situation
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Feb 10 22:34:06 UTC 2006
On Friday 10 February 2006 22:23, Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> This sounds a lot like some things I have encountered.
>
> First one very critical question... What type of ribbon cable are you
> connecting the drives with? Cable select or not.
>
> Almost all new drive cables are cable select cables. They usually have
> a colored connector at the board end, a grey connector in the middle
> (slave) and a black connector at the drive end (master).
>
Interesting - I have never heard of them being called CS cables, but your
description is exactly what I have - an 80-wire ribbon cable matching your
description.
> If you are jumpering the drives any way except as cable select (cs) then
> you may encounter problems when using them on a CS cable. You *will*
> encounter problems if a drive jumpered for master is connected to the
> slave connector, and vice versa. You *may* encounter problems with a
> drive jumpered as master and connected to the master connector or when
> jumpered as slave and connected to the slave connector (I have seen this
> myself).
>
I've never used CS - I've never been comfortable with the idea - but the black
is connected to hda and the grey to hdb, so they are the correct connections.
I always understood that jumpering overrode CS, but perhaps you are right,
and it is now necessary to use CS.
Thanks for the suggestion
Anne
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