Cable Select Supported?

[capteric35]

Hello All Again,
I got my new motherboard and read the manual. There is almost no information on the IDE interface in the manual, but it looks to ME that the motherboard's built-in IDE ports do NOT support Cable Select for the disk drives.

Does anybody know for sure?

Asrock hasn't responded to my email queries.

Any help greatly appreciated.

T^hanks,
Eric

 

[mjrtoo]

I have used and Asrock dualvista board in the past, and the only way it would post quickly is by using CS on the drives. If you selected Master/Slave the post was very slow!

 

[Aluvus]

Well since you didn't specify the motherboard model and the system in your signature is a P3 Soyo board, your question is impossible to answer.

In general: Virtually all motherboards offer at least token support for Cable Select. In general it's better to not use it becaue sometimes that support is not very good, and the advantages of using Cable Select are not huge.

 

[piasabird]

It is possible that on most motherboards with IDE harddrives Cable select is the best method if it will work. The Hard Drive or any drive would have to have the jumper set to cable select for this to work.

You may find some CDROM/DVD players that will not work well together on the same IDE Cable.

The cheaper the motherboard you buy the lower your expectations should be.

It helps to have the specific drivers for some Optical Drives that are designed for that specific drives. With DVD Drives sometimes they set things in the INI file and the Registry, that is hard to correct without manually editing the windows registry.

It might also be that if you clear the BIOS or change the version of the BIOS the motherboard will work better. Often with cheaper motherboards they ship before they work out the kinks in the BIOS, and then they release a better version that solves these kind of problems.

 

[dandragonrage]

All current motherboards with IDE support it.