IDE HD's: Cable Select vs. Master/Slave

[UTmtnbiker]

Just curious. I've always been a Master/Slave type of person myself.

Any benefit of one vs. the other, other than maybe the idiot-proof solution?

 

[Setral]

Idiot proof solution in most cases. Unless your motherboard can't handle it properly, can't really screw it up using Cable Select.

And you won't have the issue of accidentally leaving a Western Digital as Master, and have a 30 second boot up pause.

Note: I didn't say it was better, except idiot proof.

 

[RaiderJ]

Never had much of a use for cable select.... kinda been afraid to use it.... never quite sure if it was going to work.

Plus I always liked to make stuff appear in a certain order on the BIOS screen (silly, I know)

 

[raanemaan]

Master/Slave kind of guy.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Cable select mainly cause I have alot of WD drives and it's a pain to have to change the jumpers everytime I put my removable HDD in or out.

 

[Zepper]

I use cable select almost all the time now as you avoid most of the M/S hassles (like the WD and some brands not liking to be master or slave to some other brand. All the 80-wire cables are supposed to be made for C/S operation - that wasn't the case with the old 40-wire cables.

.bh.

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