Cable select

Often abbreviated as CS, cable select is a disk drive setting that will allow a cable select compatible cable to determine what drive is the master and slave based off where the drives are connected to the cable. For cable select to work the both IDE / EIDE drives must have their jumpers set to CS and be connected to a cable that supports cable select.

Users can easily identify if the flat ribbon cable supports cable select by examining the cable for any of the below characteristics.

1. Cable is an 80-connector UltraATA cable.
2. Cable has master and slave printed on the cable or on the cable connectors.

Also see: CD-ROM definitions, DS, Hard disk drive definitions, Jumper, Master, Slave