CS or Master/Slave

[Dave Sell]

How do you typically configure your IDE drives? Cable Select (CS), or Master/Slave?

[dglienna]

Wow. 4-0. I wonder if anybody uses CS?

[NoteMe]

I have no idea how to do this stuff. So I am pretty sure I use both. Is that possible? I think my 3rd HDD (the one in the FastTrack controller) is using CS........is that bad..

[<ABX]

Cable select is not bad... but you must have a proper cable. (its basicly like having the jumper built into the cable)

I prefer to be explicit because ..... its one less thing I have to worry about.

edit: all currently manufactured IDE cables should be CS compliant, but teh older cables that u would pull out of a x486 wouldnt be (yes, i still have one -- its about 3ft tall (and REAL METAL) and good for sitting on while fixing stuff in the junk room)

[NoteMe]

I just found a camble lying aroung. At least my 3 HDDs and my CD burner and my DVD burner works. But I have no idea way. I just smile and walk on in my life..


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[RobDog888]

My system at work requires CS! I had set it up as I usually do with Master/Slave
for the HDs and it would just crawl to boot up. I mean like were talking
minutes to boot. I am running P4 1.7 768 RDRAM 800. When I changed the
HD jumper to CS it boots like lightening!!! Less then 20 seconds. I have it
loaded with 15+ Gigs of programs and about 10+ Gigs of data.

I used to always use M/S but know I'm not so sure. My system at work is on
an Intel board.

You should have another option in the poll for both because at home I use
M/S on all my systems, except for the SATA RAIDs.

Later.

[Dave Sell]

Yep, this just happenned to me at work. The original drive was CS. I changed it to Master and added a slave, but Windows barfed on bootup - apparently, the drive size was calculated differently or something like that. I was forced to use CS in that case.

This prompted a discussion where someone claimed CS is used more than M/S which I couldn't believe as I never ever used it. Anyway, the CS setup was not using any special cable that I could tell. Maybe it was and I just couldn't recognize it. It was a brand-new HP.

[Dave Sell]

P.S. Rob, the question asks what do you typically use... You can't typically do both!

[NoteMe]

P.S. Rob, the question asks what do you typically use... You can't typically do both!

If you only have one PC, then it HAS to be typicaly...

[RobDog888]

Dave, I think the CS issue is mostly on proprietary systems like Compaq, HP, etc.
Because on my home systems (clones with Asus mobos) the M/S is what I
always have used.

"Typically":

I have 5 P3 & P4 systems and 1 P4 Server all networked on a hardwired and
wireless network. I do believe that the standard ATA cables are all that CS
needs.

[Ideas Man]

Master/Slave all the way. I've seen the cable select, but I suppose with time, it's just a habbit I have.

[<ABX]

P.S. Rob, the question asks what do you typically use... You can't typically do both!

typically computers have a primary and a secondary IDE channel. you could use c/s on the primary and m/s on the secondary or vise-versea.

so you can use both on the same typical system.

[RobDog888]

Yes, Thank You <ABX.

I cant believe that NO ONE uses CS ?
We need a third option on the poll - Both.

[Dave Sell]

typically computers have a primary and a secondary IDE channel. you could use c/s on the primary and m/s on the secondary or vise-versea.
so you can use both on the same typical system.

Yes, ABX, you can use them both on a single system, but I was really referring to an overall picture of typical behavior. Specifically, I am looking for what you use 51% of the time or more: C/S config, or M/S config. You can't use both of them 51% of the time. One has to be your dominant usage. That's all I was saying.

[dglienna]

Apparently, somone now admits to it!