Yup, it's definitely fedora's fault, not my hardware.

[John Summerfield]

On Monday 29 November 2004 08:08, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > Oddly enough, I've never known that there was such a beast as a "cable-
> > select cable" or a "non-cable-select cable" even though I've built at
> > least 200 systems. I've just always jumpered drives as master/slave as
> > required.
> >
> > How would one detect which type of cable it is?
>
> One of my UDMA cables has 2 different colored connectors (blue & black?)
> and can be used with Cable-Select....

I only discovered that quite recently. I think it' part of the spec from ATA-3 
which basically means all contemporary kit.

Dunno about those 40-pin cables you still see at Tricky Dick and Tandy and 
such.



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Cheers
John