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. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
