On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:35 pm, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, I am running debian sarge. > > I use a hard drive for back up, and I have to remove the hard drive > intermittently. Each time I pull out one of the the hard drives from > the machine to store as a backup, it seems that I must always set the > jumpers on both! drives each time. You're probably doing something wrong... > with 2 drives in machine - > [one drive with "jumper set as master" and one drive with "jumper as slave" ] > with 1 drive in machine - > [one drive with jumper set as "master with no slave present"] > > I cant seem to get "cable select" to work ie: if one drive as master > - set it to cable select adn it works on the end of the cable, while > if 2 drives are present, teh second drive on the ribbon closer to the > mother board should be the slave and the further the master. Cable select only works with one drive on the cable if it's going to work at all. I generally consider cable select *way* more trouble than it was ever worth, and I *really* wish hard drive manufacturers would let it die already. Just use master/slave. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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