ATA Cabling Reversal??

[Clavan]

Hi,
A minor point of confusion for me: If I have an ATA100 HD (WD 80G 7200), what is the result of having the Master and Slave devices
'reversed' on the cable. In other words, I have the Blue cable head on my mobo (OK so far), but the GREY (middle) head on the Master
device (HD) and the BLACK cable head on the Slave device (CD-RW). All instructions I've read dictate that the Black/Grey cable heads mount opposite the way I have them.
Thing is, BIOS shows the 80G as an ATA-100 device, and things seem to run just fine the way they are now.

Am I making much ado about nothing??????

Thanks,
MC

 

[AppleTalking]

I don't think it really makes much difference. That's the way I have them set up on my system (gray on my master IBM 60GXP and black on my AOpen 12X DVD-ROM), and it's been perfectly fine for going on 8 months now. So long as you have the jumpers set properly, everything should be fine.

Nick

 

[Clavan]

...Yeah, (thanx for the reply) all ran fine. I was just a tad concerned when I was going over some directions - and got all hornswaggled
(nice word, eh??) re. my apparent mistake.

One more for the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it...' school......MC

 

[JesseKnows]

The difference between the two connectors on the cable is in the way "cable select" is implemented. If you are using the master/slave setting on the drives this is irrelevent.