Marc Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select.You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one.Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to impossible to put your hands on a 80-pin IDE cable that *wasn't* cable-select.
The crossover cables I have seen are for MFM drives and for floppy disks. They have a section cable this has a twist in it. None of my ATA cables, eithe r 40-pin or 80, has such a twist.
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