Re: how to make hda become hdb?
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:28:49PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Pigeon" == jah pigeon <Pigeon> writes:
>
> >> According to IDE specs, master is supposed to go on the end of
> >> the cable.
>
> Pigeon> I think that for reasons of termination (such as it is for
> Pigeon> IDE), if you only have one drive, it should go on the end
> Pigeon> of the cable. If you have two, I don't think it matters
> Pigeon> which is where, especially since the difference in status
> Pigeon> implied by "master" and "slave" is an artefact of the
> Pigeon> terminology with no counterpart in the functioning of the
> Pigeon> interface. This is empirical, of course. But on a cable
> Pigeon> with two drives, I've never found it to matter which goes
> Pigeon> where.
>
> Unless you set your drives to "cable select" and use an IDE cable that
> automatically chooses master and slave for you. Apparently these
> exist, though I've never used one (and would avoid it).
>
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
Yeah, I too have heard of these and their reputation for being flaky,
though I don't know why this should be so.
I think the cables are visibly different, with missing connections, so
maybe it's something to do with floating pins on the HDD picking up
interference - best I can come up with.
Pigeon
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