[pchelpers] Re: Win 98 & Internet Explorer


> Based on what I've seen, I think controllers that use 80-pin cables
> are cable-select. So, you need to either have both drives set for
> cable select, or else you need to have one set as master (not single)
> and one as slave.
>
> If you have a 40-pin cable and the computer is not a name-brand, then
> it's not cable-select.  If you have a 40-pin cable and it's a
> name-brand computer, it MIGHT be a cable-select cable.
>
> My understanding is that if you have a 40-pin cable-select cable, the
> drives must be cable select.  Apparently there's no "must" with 80-pin
> cables.

 Thanks for the info about cable select
All the computers that I have built in the last year I have installed the
new 80-pin
cables and all the drives are jumped as single or master or master with
slave.
I have never jumped one as cable-select, in fact I have never found anyone
who could tell me what cable-select was for. I could never get a drive
working with
that setting. But I have never tried setting both drives to cable-select in
a name brand
before.

Now the older HPs ( Don't know about the newer ones)I have seen are
different.
If you look closely at the end connection for the HDD you will see a hole in
the cable.
If you replace the HDD without replacing the cable it will not be detected.
Only a HP
HDD will work on that cable. In a pinch you can move the HDD to the 2nd
connection
on the cable and it will work.

Pc


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