Cable Select is a protocol that determines which drive is Master and which
is Slave solely by their position on the cable (end or middle connector.) To
use Cable Select, you need to have a modern IDE connector (which you
probably have), a special 80-conductor cable (which you may or may not have)
and both drives set to use CS. You don't have jumpers for CS *and* Master
(or Slave), you have jumpers for CS *or* Master (/Slave).

Your better bet is to use Master and Slave jumper settings, not Cable
Select. But if your system is running fine now, it's probably OK to just
leave it the way it is.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

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Jonny wrote:
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I want to install new hard drive I will set the jumpers to master and

You can't set jumpers to both master and cable select. One or the
other,
not both.
My manual says use cable select but do you think they mean only to
added ide things on that bus. i did add the cable select jumper to the
master with the master jumper on and also to the slave as the only set
jumper. All seems so fsr ok. Should i remove the cable selesct from the
master HD because it may give me problem down the road. Just what does
the cable select setting do?
cable select that I will run fdisk and then install windows 98SE. Do
I
have to do anything in order to make it a bootable hard disk?


Two things have to occur. You need a partition that is primary and
active.
You need to install the boot files on that partition in the proper
location.

Also if I install the old drive as the slave and remove the master
jumper still with the older OS windows 98 will all hell break loss
at
startup. Will the CPU not know what drive to boot with?


If the bios setting for booting is not modified to seek another hard
drive
for booting, the PC will attempt to boot from the first hard drive
found
only. If the previous hard drive is set to cable select, and on the
same
ide cable, the other hard drive must be set to cable select.

Can a slave be booted from? As with a Mac could I have multiple OSs
on
different volumes and boot from which ever I force to do?


Some bios and some 3rd party boot managers allow booting from hard
drives
other than the primary, master if it exists as such.

NT/XP has an option for booting windows from other than the default
installation location. The actual boot files themselves are on the C:
partition though.
--
Jonny