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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:52:16 -0500, MCheu
wrote: Smaller OEMs and hobbyists prefer to use the Master/Slave settings because drives usually ship as being set to Master, and this way there's no ambiguity when you need to trouble shoot the system. You know exactly which drive has taken what position. ? I prefer cable select and almost all drives shipping now ship jumpered to cable select. |
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:44:13 GMT, "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. The manual isn't exactly 'wrong'. Your shop just had another way of doing things...and I still do it the way your shop does it. I always change the jumpers to single drive...or master...or slave. When you have the drive set to CS, the computer needs to read the drives each time it boots...and then make a decision as how to handle them. With master, etc. settings, you already tell the computer which is which...and that can speed the boot process. You can speed the process further by changing the BIOS setting from 'auto' to the actual parameters needed for that drive. And, as was noted by someone here, you need a special cable when using CS. Have a nice one... Trent Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! |
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In message Trent©
wrote: The manual isn't exactly 'wrong'. Your shop just had another way of doing things...and I still do it the way your shop does it. I always change the jumpers to single drive...or master...or slave. When you have the drive set to CS, the computer needs to read the drives each time it boots...and then make a decision as how to handle them. That isn't entirely true -- The CS pin simply lets the drive jumper itself correctly based on whether or not the PIN is set -- The company doesn't make any more decisions in CS mode then in Master/Slave mode. With master, etc. settings, you already tell the computer which is which...and that can speed the boot process. You can speed the process further by changing the BIOS setting from 'auto' to the actual parameters needed for that drive. And, as was noted by someone here, you need a special cable when using CS. Virtually all 80-wire cables support CS. -- Nobody ever lost money underestimating the human intelligence. -- P.T.Barnum |
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:25:26 -0700, DevilsPGD
wrote: In message Trent© wrote: The manual isn't exactly 'wrong'. Your shop just had another way of doing things...and I still do it the way your shop does it. I always change the jumpers to single drive...or master...or slave. When you have the drive set to CS, the computer needs to read the drives each time it boots...and then make a decision as how to handle them. That isn't entirely true -- Sure it is. The CS pin simply lets the drive jumper itself correctly based on whether or not the PIN is set -- The company doesn't make any more decisions in CS mode then in Master/Slave mode. Sure it does. With master, etc. settings, you already tell the computer which is which...and that can speed the boot process. You can speed the process further by changing the BIOS setting from 'auto' to the actual parameters needed for that drive. And, as was noted by someone here, you need a special cable when using CS. Virtually all 80-wire cables support CS. An 80-wire cable is a special cable on MANY machines yet. Have a nice one... Trent Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! |
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