[rescue] AX1105 (Netra X1-alike) booting from cdrom problems... (cable-select IDE)

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Mon Jan 8 10:10:35 CST 2007


Saith Lionel Peterson ...

> Remember, Cable Select requires an appropriate cable, 
> typically an 80 conductor cable - if you have the drve 
> jumpered for Cable Select, and use a non-Cable Select cable, 
> your results will be as the original poster described, now 
> that I think about it.

I've always wondered about "cable select."  I've never tried to use it,
having been warned off of it years ago, but I couldn't see how it would work
on a normal IDE cable....

Thanks.

-Shel



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