Re: Need some geeky help

de Marten Kemp 04/19/2006 07:57

glog@sympatico.ca wrote:

> Marten Kemp wrote:
>> glog@sympatico.ca wrote:
>>> Al Klein wrote:
>>>> On 18 Apr 2006 20:52:21 GMT, Chakolate
>>>> <chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Morten Skarstad <root@localhost.invalid> wrote in
>>>>> news:44453530$1@news.broadpark.no:
>>>>
>>>>>> Since 0 is failing, I'd guess that what you want is a fresh OS with
>>>>>> all your files on drive 1, toss 0 into the bin and just leave 1 as a
>>>>>> lone master. The above suggestion is IMO the cleanest way to
>>>>>> accomplish this.
>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I'll give it a shot. Thanks to all those who replied.
>>>>
>>>> Just remember to put the drive, if you're only plugging one drive in,
>>>> at the end of the cable. It doesn't work too well to have a couple of
>>>> inches of unterminated cable hanging off the drive.
>>>
>>> Al....
>>> IDE drives are NOT cable position sensitive, unlike RLL & MFM
>>> Drive cables only have to be terminated if they are SCSI.
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm a retired computer sciences (hardware) instructor.
>>
>> Sorry to nitpick, but IDE drives ARE cable position
>> sensitive IF they've been jumpered for cable-select.
>>
>> Floppies, MFM and RLL weren't either, if one used the
>> correct combination of jumper positions and twist/
>> non-twist cables. Yeah, I wanted the drives to appear
>> as *I* wanted them to, not the way the save-a-tenth-of-
>> a-cent (or "don't confuse the morons") default wiring
>> set them up to appear.
>
> Well, you are nit-picking! while what you say about cable select is
> true, 99% of all comsumer model computers do NOT use cable select!
>
> I try to present information that is useful to the posting and reflects
> the Norm. IOW, don't confuse the issue with irrelevant facts.
> Regards
> Lee

Okay. Add "Unless they are jumpered as 'cable select',"
to the front of the sentence and I'll keep quiet. I *have*
seen systems that were set up for cable select.

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