-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 S Glasoe wrote:
On Friday June 1 2007 3:12:05 pm jdd wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
The new writable drive has S L A, and also says S is cable select, L is slave, and A is master. It is jumper-set on L. I think you misread the drive. It should read:
CSM SLA
but you must read vertically:
CS (cable select, avoid it) SL slave MA master
I have found that Cable Select (CS) vs. Master (MA)/Slave(SL) is very IDE controller and/or system BIOS dependent. Some systems won't work w/o all devices set CS. Others won't work w/o all devices set as MA/SL. Sometimes they work either way but performance obviously favors one over the other. Only way to know is to start from factory settings and 'ass-u-me' they may have known what they were doing... If all esle fails, try the opposite. Salvalged many a broken system/device from almost every brand-name manufacturer this way as well as white-box systems.
I agree ... further complication comes with devices rated with different data transfer speeds/settings on same cable... bit of a lottery really... tend to prefer to put 1 device <-> 1 IDE slot to avoid the hassle... but unfortunately one often has no choice but put to use full capability :-( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGYTTDasN0sSnLmgIRAlJFAKCZonopz/ulvdF1n8bc/LRy3FEy+gCgzoJM V4nANdLlvs3tyRI1yTZZ1SA= =irOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org