[OT] Connecting two hard drives on same IDE cable
Markku Kolkka
markkuk at tuubi.net
Wed Aug 29 15:36:01 UTC 2007
Dotan Cohen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 29.
elokuuta 2007):
> I always install the master on the cable connector closest to
> the motherboard, and the slave on the far end.
That's the old Cable Select configuration used with 40-conductor
cables defined in ATA-4 and earlier specifications.
> I have read from a respected
> data-recovery source that the slave should in fact be on the
> connector closest to the motherboard and the master on the
> end.
That's the Cable Select setup for ATA-5 and later, used with
80-conductor cables.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment#Cable_select
If you set master/slave with jumpers instead of using CS the
master/slave location shouldn't matter if you have two drives,
but if you have only one drive it should be at the end of the
cable to reduce electrical interference.
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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at iki.fi
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