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   From: "Steveski"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: HDD not recognized in Kubuntu 6.10 LiveCD.   
   Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:26:06 -0000   
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   ken scharf wrote:   
   > Steveski wrote:   
   >> Steveski wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Bernard Mercier wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Thank you for the info.   
   >>>> You mean that's some jumper on the HDD itself?   
   >>> Yes. The "old" system was to designate one drive as Master and the   
   >>> other drive as Slave on an IDE cable. Most drives these days simply   
   >>> use CS and then it depends on where you, physically, put the   
   >>> drive(s) on the cable - the terminating end being master and the   
   >>> connector in the middle being slave. As always, there's more to it   
   >>> than this but that'll do for the moment :-)   
   >>   
   >> I should have pointed out that the jumpers (MA, SL and CS) are on   
   >> the back of IDE drives (including CD and DVD drives).   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Steveski   
   > It should be pointed out that CS only works if you have the correct   
   > cable.  I would think that the jumpers would over-ride the cable, but   
   > it might be that you had the drive jumpered for master and connected   
   > to the slave position of a cable select cable.  Usually cables that   
   > come with motherboards are NOT cable select cables, but those   
   > provided by OEM computer makers (such as Dell, HP, or Gateway) are.   
   > I do not know how to tell the difference between cables but I bet the   
   > cable select type have the connectors marked "master" and "slave" or   
   > "primary" and "secondary" or something like that.   
      
   w.r.t. IDE (which we're not as BM pointed out) yes, it's 80 cables versus 40   
   cables.   
      
   --   
   Steveski   
      
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