Is this good advice ?

[seagull]

On another board. This advice was given to a poster.

"but you should be using the master or slave jumpers, NOT cable select, & it's good practice to put the master at the end of the cable."

"Also, don't pair up two HDDs on the same cable" ???????

[Quintz]

hopefully that last part is not right since that's how I have mine set up with both hd's on one cable. I've heard something that cable select will not work with some hd's, but I've never experienced this myself, and I heard this a long time ago.

[ric449]

You use cable select with any drive that supports it, as long as you use a 80 conductor cable. As for the 2 hard drives on same cable, there is some truth to it. This is because only one drive on a cable can be accessed at the same time, so if you want to access both drives at the same time you will get slow access.

[kram 2.0]

Coincidence - I just read my Hard Drive manual for my IDE HDD. I quote Seagate, which should be similar in any other brands:

Originally Posted by Seagate It is preferred to have the CD-ROM and other non-hard drive products on the secondary ATA channel

It does mention "preferred" - not required. However, drisley, the owner and administrator of PC Mech, states this:

Originally Posted by drisley A later computer can handle two IDE hard drives per IDE channel. This is more than enough for most people

In short conclusion, it really does not matter, but it's best to have two hard drives on the same channel - slave then Master.

Hope that helps,
kram

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by seagull On another board. This advice was given to a poster. "but you should be using the master or slave jumpers, NOT cable select, & it's good practice to put the master at the end of the cable."

That's correct if you're using a 40 wire IDE cable...but if you're using a 80 wire IDE cable you'll want to set the jumpers to CS.

Originally Posted by seagull "Also, don't pair up two HDDs on the same cable" ???????

Then why provide connectors for two IDE devices on the same cable? Really, you won't hurt anything if you have two hard drives on the same IDE cable. If the system is just accessing one hard drive at a time, all is well...but if you have to access both hard drives at once there will be a slight slow down, but nothing to get all excited about.

Cricket

[EzyStvy]

It would probably help if we knew the rest of the conversation Pretty easy to take things out of context

[QuickSilver]

I don't think you will notice the difference having 2 on 1 cable unless you frequently write massive ammounts of data to both drives at once, and almost no body ever does that.

[seagull]

"It would probably help if we knew the rest of the conversation Pretty easy to take things out of context "

How could you take my OP out of context.

"Also, don't pair up two HDDs on the same cable" ???????

[Force Flow]

Originally Posted by seagull "Also, don't pair up two HDDs on the same cable" ???????

Originally Posted by Cricket Then why provide connectors for two IDE devices on the same cable? Really, you won't hurt anything if you have two hard drives on the same IDE cable. If the system is just accessing one hard drive at a time, all is well...but if you have to access both hard drives at once there will be a slight slow down, but nothing to get all excited about.

There's nothing wrong with it like cricket said, however there have been some instances where there have been conflicts caused by putting two different drive brands on the same controller.

Originally Posted by Seagull How could you take my OP out of context.

We have no idea what these quotes are replying to and what the person with the question is trying to accomplish.