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Originally Posted by justinwrock
What you need to do is set the jumper setting on the primary drive to master. (This would be the 80gig that came in the computer.) Then the 30 gig drive you jumper to your slave drive. Cable select SHOULD only be used when running one hard drive. Someone has told me that cable select means that the one drive connected will funtion faster.
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Cable select means just that - the cable's physical structure automatically selects the HDD order by making the middle-connected HDD the slave and the top, or end-connected HDD the master drive.
CS is not any faster, it's just that cable select is used with UDMA cables and UDMA runs much faster than the older, non-UDMA cables.
Newest HDDs use SATA connectors, which don't look like flat ribbons at all, but I'm guessing you don't have a SATA system.
Since your system is new, I'm assuming the BIOS has UDMA enabled and it should also automatically detect all your IDE devices by default.
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