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What's the deal with hard drives?

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apex1x

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Aug 14, 2002
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I'm curious as why over the last several years, we havn't moved from our master, slave, and cable select system on hard drives.
How hard would it be to have the hard drives and other IDE/SCSI devices to figure it out for themselves?
Does anyone else think there should be an autmatic cable select on drives with logic that identifies each drive?
What are your opinions/thoughts? ~Apex1x
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You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.
 
I don't know why they have not done away with the jumpers, but IMHO I wouldn't want it any other way! All I need is for my plug n play hard drive to refuse to install as the primary drive (much like a winmodem refuses to change com ports)!! ;-)

Incidentally, have a look at Serial ATA hard drives. Motherboards are already incorporating support for them, but (at last check) the drives themselves are commercially unavailable. :-(

They have done away with the Master/Slave jumpers (admittedly, it is because they are limited to 1 drive per cable). Perhaps this will alleviate some of the jumper frustration!

In case it interests anybody, these links will get you started--
Mudskipper
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