Cable Select is for pussies...use the "hard" settings of "master" or "slave". It's good practice to put the master on the end connector, but it's not absolutely necessary. The only time it HAS to be on the end, is when using Cable Select.

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The order matters is you have a newer system using ATA100 and 80 wire IDE cables. These cables can be identified by the colored connectors. For these configurations the blue is MB, the grey is slave and the black is master. In theory cable select should work with this setup. However, optical drives sometimes don't work correctly using cable select. It is usually better to use master/ slave. Also with these systems it is not usually critical that the SECONDARY master be a HD. You can just as well use CD/master, HD/slave. This is sometimes easier to connect the cables.

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Hey OtheHill, Yes, 80-wire cables are color coded, but the colors only make a difference when using the cable select setting. Like I said, putting the master on the end is a good habit to get into. And if you're only using one device on the cable, it's the only way to go. But if you're using the master/slave jumpers instead of cable select, & you're putting 2 devices on the same cable, it doesn't matter which one goes where. Try it, if I'm wrong, you can always change it... ...my lifestyle determines my deathstyle...

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Jam Try setting the drive as a slave and installing it on the black end. I don't think it will work. You can pull the cable from a master drive set as I described and the slave will still show up.

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