Re: Amazing what a little RTFM can do :>

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:24:08 +1000 (EST)

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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