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DanielEKFA wrote:
Folkert Rienstra wrote: "DanielEKFA" wrote in message John wrote: My eMachine 1860, running WXP, has been flakey on boot for a year now; once it is on it is fine, but it hands on boot about 20% of the time. Monday it simply wouldn't come up, hanging on "IOM.SYS" everytime. I took it in to the shop. They found a cable was nicked and the jumpers were wrong. They set them to Master and Slave. Now all is well. However, I checked the manual and it says to set the jumpers to "CS". The shop says the manual is wrong. Does it matter as long as the machine is working? Presumably the nicked cable was the problem the whole time. Thanks. If your BIOS has no problem with it, setting the jumpers to Cable Select (CS) is simply convenient if you swap drives, remove drives, add drives etc. It just means that you won't have to manually set the jumpers, that the position (1 or 2) a drive has on the cable determines wether it's slave or master. There's nothing wrong with setting the jumpers to Slave and Master respectively, the end result is the same. CS is just easier - if it's supported by the BIOS. Clueless. The bios has nothing to do with it. Ah, the socially retarded troll boy! You're such a fool - to think you'd actually say this, LOL! Oh, I'm glad I somehow failed to add you to my killfile on the last pathetic ramble you spewed out, otherwise I wouldn't have seen this. LOL Hee hee hee Ahhhh... Now let's see if I can get you added to that killfile of mine this time... Oh yeah, that's the stuff! PLONK Actually, for once he's right. Cable Select is not a BIOS function, it's hardware, the IDE equivalent of the twisted cable that is used for diskette drives. The only difference between cable select and jumpering for master/slave is that when cable select is used which is master and which is slave is determined by the position of the drive on the cable instead of by an explicit jumper setting. If the manual for your BIOS says to set the jumpers to CS, then it obviously supports Cable Select, so it would be the shop who is wrong, not your manual. But either way, it makes no difference once the system is up and running. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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"J. Clarke" wrote:
Andrew Rossmann wrote: Cable Select also requires a cable that supports it. I think most of the newer 80-wire do, but many older 40-wire don't. The second sentence in the next paragraph, which you snipped, was "For*cable*select*to*work*one*conductor*has to be cut at a certain point." Or the appropriate pin removed from the connector... |
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