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December 10th, 2003 18:00
Cable Select on hd?
I'm installing a second hd, and I am curious as to what everyone means by 'cable select'.
I understand that the slave needs to be plugged into the first connection, with the master behind that. If I set the drive that is coming with my system to master and switch the jumper to reflect that, and set the slave to slave drive, what else do I need to do other then configure it in the bios settings?
what do I need to do with cable select? I don't understand that.
- Cable select refers to the location of the drives on the cable; the boot drive must be the last on on the cable and all other drives are above it. I just installed one on one of my 8300s. It's quite easy, but you must remember to unplug the current boot drive and plug it into the last part of the cable.
Also make sure it's a parallel drive, which will be shown by gray flat cables. I just bought a new 8300, and it has a serial drive, which is a different setup.
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Posted December 10th, 2003 19:00
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Maybe it's because all the drives in Dell systems, are shipped preset to the "Cable Select" setting.
Bev.