Cable Select - Second Drive - Slave

[J.K. Bowman]

Hey Gang..

First, a thanks for the previous help. I have a new Samsung hard drive installed and my system is running like lightening. However, a few more q.

When I installed the Samsung the setting I used was 'Cable Select.' I assumed this meant that the system would figure out which was the Master and which was the Slave based on their positioning on the web cable.

I still, however, have this IBM hard drive. If I decide to install that should I:

• configure the pins so that it's also labled 'cable select'?
• configure the pins so that it's clearly labled 'slave'?

And then finally, can you tell me if reinstalling this ole IBM as a slave will bring back the horrendous sound? If so, I'll just sell it and skip the whole idea. This drive works just fine, but sounds like a dump truck.

Thanks!

[Carl Price]

Any sound the drive is making should carry over UNLESS it is reformated and then it still might. It should be jumpered cs also unless you are slaving it to another drive on another cable.

Usually any unusual actions (your sound) are a sign of nonconforming (read going bad) equipment. Not always but usually.

[glc]

If the master drive is jumpered CS, jumper the slave CS. If you use master/slave, make sure the master is on the end of the cable unless it's an old 40 wire ribbon, then it doesn't matter.

If you have an IBM drive that sounds like a cement mixer, it's worth a try zero filling it, this is a common problem with those. You can use the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (www.hitachigst.com) to do this. Obviously, this will wipe all data and partitions and it will have to be repartitioned and reformatted.