Talk:Cable select

Delete this article

This article is superfluous. The information is already in the "AT Attachment" article. Jeh 11:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this article should be deleted because the AT Attachment article already includes most of the information. There's not a whole lot to say about cable select on its own, and I think the explanation benefits from having the rest of the AT Attachment information in the same article. There are probably some useful points in this article that could be added to the AT Attachment article, such as the sources which could be added as references. Still, this article should be delected to redirect to AT_Attachment#Cable_select. ~Kruck 18:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the redirect is exactly what's needed. Discussion though should probably happen in the AT_Attachment's talk page. There's another merge pending too. Jeh 06:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Connectors indicating Master and Slave

The connector at the end of the IDE cable is MASTER and the connector in the middle is SLAVE (http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_cable_select.html). If you're thinking the middle connector is MASTER because of this (http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ide-cable-select.html) page, notice that this is a way to modify an IDE cable. The default is to have MASTER at the end of the cable.

The use of 40 and 80 pin cables should be explained in the article, not just the image caption.

~Kruck 16:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, on the 40-conductor cable it is the opposite: Master (really "device 0" is the middle connector and slave (really "device 1") is at the end. This was changed on the 80-conductor cable. The AT Attachment article explains in more detail. So the caption on the picture here was incorrect... but it's a moot point now. I'm not using this picture with the merge because there is really nothing about the picture that shows anything specific to cable select; it's just another picture of an ATA cable, and we already have one of those. A closeup of a 40-conductor cable with the cut that implements CS might be useful. Jeh 18:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]