Installing Hard drive

[Rappsny]

Hi,
Quick question about installing a hard drive. Is it better to put 2 items on one ide cable or if you have multiple ide cables use one for each? Also, what is the "cable select" setting for the jumpers? The last hard drive I got had just master and slave. Is there any advantage or disadvatage to using this method?
Thx.

 

[fell8]

Usually it's better to have drives on separate IDE channels (read: cables) as they don't have to share resources. I believe cable select is not widely used anymore.

 

[Heisenberg]

Cable select means the drive determines if it's the master or slave by where it's at on the cable. The end connector is the master, the middle the slave.