Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: Amazing what a little RTFM can do :> | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:24:08 +1000 (EST) |
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Shawn Rutledge Wrote ... > > Ah, so that's what CS means. I have a drive that has 3 jumper positions > and I forget what the other two were labeled, but CS was one of them. Do > you know what the other two-letter abbreviations mean? This particular drive > was having trouble functioning as a slave; I tried all three jumper positions > to no avail. But it's not too important since it's only a 120 meg drive...
On Western Digital drives they are labels MA, SL and CP. MA Master SL Slave (no jumpers means single drive) CP Conner Peripherals. Apparently some/many/all (?) Conner drives are broken and the IDE controller on the drive needs to know it's connected to such a device.
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