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Dia · 12-23-2007, 12:45 AM

If the pata cable you are using is a 40 pin cable you wont be able to use cable select use the slave setting. (unless you have a cable select cable laying around)

If the pata cable is an 80 pin you can use cable select if you like.

I personally stick to the master/slave jumper settings when working with pata.

Also after you setup your partition before going and using the old drive make sure to run a scandisk on the drive to mark any bad sectors before using. If you dont do this you may write data to bad sectors that will be hard to recover the information.

12-23-2007, 12:45 AM	#9
Dia Member (8 bit) Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 130	If the pata cable you are using is a 40 pin cable you wont be able to use cable select use the slave setting. (unless you have a cable select cable laying around) If the pata cable is an 80 pin you can use cable select if you like. I personally stick to the master/slave jumper settings when working with pata. Also after you setup your partition before going and using the old drive make sure to run a scandisk on the drive to mark any bad sectors before using. If you dont do this you may write data to bad sectors that will be hard to recover the information. Last edited by Dia; 12-23-2007 at 12:54 AM.