Locked up again! What can I check- I'm on another box

[Dotan Cohen]

On 18/06/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:01 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> > If you have 2 drives, jumpered as master and slaves, the master drive
> > is connected to the middle connector on the ribbon cable, and the
> > slave drive uses the connector at the end of the ribbon.
>
> *IF* you are using cable-select cables, where the position of the drive
> selects which is master and slave (and you have the drive jumpered to
> work in cable-select mode), the end connector is the master.
>
> If you have manually set your drives as master and slave, then it does
> not matter where you have it connected.  Anybody who thinks otherwise is
> falling victim to the placebo effect.
>

No, I set them to master and slave. I'd love to see this documented
somewhere reliable. Googling found nothing that I would consider
reliable.

Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com