All PATA wires have cable select...vlame wrote:hmm i just bought 3 IDE133 wires, and they don't connect to my hdds correctly. one shows up as corrupt when i connect 2 and they only work with my ROMS.
i didn't know there were cable select PATA wires.
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Just set the drives manually. The one on the end should be master and the one in the middle should be slave.
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That is untrue. You need compatible cables in order to use cable select. Otherwise, you'll have to set the drives as master and slave. Older 40 conductor IDE cables will not work with cable select. I have tried, and got the same results as vlame (drives showing up as corrupt). Apparently you can cut pin 28 between the two drives and use a 40 conductor cable for cable select, but I've never tried that. The newer 80 conductor cables will work with cable select.Niode wrote:All PATA wires have cable select...vlame wrote:hmm i just bought 3 IDE133 wires, and they don't connect to my hdds correctly. one shows up as corrupt when i connect 2 and they only work with my ROMS.
i didn't know there were cable select PATA wires.
Most newer cables will be color coded with the blue and black connectors, those you know for sure are cable select.
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I thought they all cable select on pin 28? Oh well.
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these are blue for the mobo, grey in the middle and black at the top
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I'm waiting for SSD's to become affordable 
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well yeah, why not boot from a huge CF flash drive?Pulsar_t wrote:I'm waiting for SSD's to become affordable
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Flash is still more expensive than SATA/PATA. Is USB3.0 going to be faster than SATA? Maybe it will make sense to install OS on Flash and have other files on magnetic media.vlame wrote:well yeah, why not boot from a huge CF flash drive?Pulsar_t wrote:I'm waiting for SSD's to become affordable
Magnetic media FTL (=/= Faster Than Light).
SSDs need to come down in price eventually. How long do you reckon before 1TB of SSD = $200? Hopefully not too many moons!
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well shit they have 4tb for 300, 2 tb for 129 of normal hdds, ssd tech is new.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOPRAM-32GB-32G-CF- ... 4016wt_939
enough for xp or vista i think.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOPRAM-32GB-32G-CF- ... 4016wt_939
enough for xp or vista i think.
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