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

[RoboticGolem]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:21:18 +0800, Edward <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au> wrote:
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> John Summerfield wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> 40 CORE (they both use 40 pin btw) cable - doesn't matter which is
> master slave or even motherboard connector.
> 
> 80 CORE cable can cause havoc if you do not stick to the order:
> BLUE - MOTHERBOARD
> BLACK - MASTER
> GREY - SLAVE
> 
> Any other combination can cause real problems, or minor ones depending
> on motherboard. I've never seen an incorrectly wired IDE cable run at
> ATA-5 speed properly.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> 
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Maybe a little off topic here, but I know at one point in time I had a
cdrom in cable select mode and, games like quake, the cd audio sounded
like dirt.  I mean it played and all, but when I put another drive on
that cable and jumpered the drive, it fixed my problem.  I was
bewildered by that for a long time.

-Matt