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unbroken

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Running Cable Select?
« on: June 07, 2004, 10:48:00 AM »
I was trying to run cable select on my new western digital 120 gb HD, but it wont seem to boot up. I heard that if you run cable select, it is alot faster. Is there something that i am doing wrong? search is not working right now, so i cant seem to find anything about cable select. someone please help me. thanks
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opjose

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Running Cable Select?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 10:57:00 AM »
QUOTE (unbroken @ Jun 7 2004, 06:41 PM)
I was trying to run cable select on my new western digital 120 gb HD, but it wont seem to boot up. I heard that if you run cable select, it is alot faster. Is there something that i am doing wrong? search is not working right now, so i cant seem to find anything about cable select. someone please help me. thanks

I don't know where you got this, but it's totally untrue.

Some drives come with CABLE SELECT enabled others with MASTER or no jumper whatsoever.

The Xbox ide cable DOES NOT use cable select at all neither does the IDE interface.

Just put a regular IDE cable back in and be done with it.
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unbroken

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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2004, 11:08:00 AM »
you 100% sure about that? i could of swore i heard someone on this forum say they ran cable select on their xbox, and the games load twice as fast.
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Cathesdus

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Running Cable Select?
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »
There are some things you need to understand.  Number One - Although we all try to help people around here, you can't help but meet a few bull-shitters along the way.  Also, with a post count like opjose's, how could he lie  :P.

EDIT:Oh and I'm not surprised that you heard something along those lines because a few months ago, people were saying that by putting a high speed IDE cable in your box, it would be able to read data faster.  Well, they got the results and they said that the load time isn't even noticeable.  Also, it didn't have anything to do with having the drive on cable select.  Cable select is just for lazy people that don't feel like configuring which drives have priority over the IDE Channel.

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opjose

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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2004, 11:36:00 AM »
QUOTE (Cathesdus @ Jun 7 2004, 07:19 PM)
There are some things you need to understand.  Number One - Although we all try to help people around here, you can't help but meet a few bull-shitters along the way.  Also, with a post count like opjose's, how could he lie  :P.

The ATA133 cables offer slightly better noise immunity.

If the drive was already picking up induced noise, then changing the cable would offer improved performance, only because it was NOT working optimally before.

This lends a basis to the ATA133 cable. However changing the cable DOES NOT improve throughput over ATA33 which is the ONLY speed the Xbox supports.

The Xbox does NOT use cable select no matter how the drive is jumpered as the provided cable does not have have the cable select modifications in it.

Nor does cable select itself make any difference as far as XFER rates. It does not define the transfer protocols or affect them in any way, rather it merely mimics what the jumpers do via a slight change to the cable, in the same way the "cable select" on floppy drives do.

So YES I'm 100% sure...

I try to avoid speaking from the nether regions whenever possible, though on some days....
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This post has been edited by opjose: Jun 7 2004, 06:36 PM
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