[X4U] Progress on 10.4 upgrade causing crashes

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sat Apr 28 17:52:17 PDT 2007


> On 28 Apr, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 
> > So I pulled my data drive, and the crashes stopped.
> 
> Could it have been caused by having the same identity on both drives  
> or by using cable select? I always try to avoid using cable select  
> because I don't really trust it after seeing strange things happen  
> with the PC machines at work.
> 
> I ask this because I have installed multiple drives in many towers  
> and never had any problems with the master drive being in the lower  
> bracket. I do identify the drives by using Master or Slave settings,  
> never cable select, and have not had any problem like you describe.

Not an issue with SATA drives in a G5 tower.  It is rather nice no longer
having to deal with Slave/Master jumpers.

	Zane



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