Cable Select vs Master/Slave ... Which is Best?

[rkr1958]

I have a Sony DRU-500a DVD Writer and a DVD-ROM on my seconary IDE channel. On my previous system I has to configure them as Master / Slave. I just recently did an upgrade (Motherboard, Memory, CPU) and, initially, kept them as Master / Slave. However, yesterday I changed them both to cable select and have been running them as such with no problems (so far). My question is simple, which configuration is best?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

Just my oppinion, but I always use the master/slave configuration myself

[redwudz]

The advantage, if there is one, is that cable select allows you to set all drives to cs and uses their position on the IDE cable to determine if they are master/slave. No real difference between the settings as far as I know, just supposed to make things simpler for setup.

[hech54]

I have a Dell computer with XP Pro....everything came from the factory as CS. So when I installed my new LG 4040B Burner....I left it that way and all is running good.

[rkr1958]

Thanks for all the replies. What I'm hearing is that if your motherboard supports it cs allows one to move drives around and not worry about having to change jumper settings. Other than that, performance is the same.