What is the “Cable Select” setting on a hard drive?
hi mate in laymans terms Cable Select is an alternate method to using the Master/Slave jumpers for identifying the Master or Slave device on ATA/ATAPI systems. Cable Select can save time during the assembly process for large volume system integrators and is quickly becoming the industry default setting for new drive shipments. All Seagate ATA drives can be configured for either Cable Select or Master/Slave with jumper settings, but not both simultaneously. Additionally, if there are two devices on an ATA channel/cable, both devices must use either Cable Select or Master/Slave settings. there are several configurations of jumper settings on a average ide hard drive,these are : Master or single drive…this is the jumper setting used when a single ide drive is fitted in your p.c,you normally find this in new pc,s especially budget desktops were a single hard drive is used drive as slave….this is used when you have a second drive used with a master configured drive,one needs to be set t
