Sure, I didn't find Cable Select reliable, but I never ran into any issue just manually setting the Master / Slave jumpers. Also didn't mind planning and confi

Sure, I didn't find Cable Select reliable, but I never ran into any issue just manually setting the Master / Slave jumpers. Also didn't mind planning and configuring IRQ jumpers. I actually found the old convention more deterministically reliable than the Plug-N-Play one which came afterward. To this day I still have random PCIe devices that, once in a blue moon, fail to aquire the resources they need in the OS, requiring a reboot (usually on machines with a lot of expansion cards and integrated devices). I also liked that floppy drives were just media, and didn't require vendor-specific drivers or have capabilities of emulating other hardware or installing rootkits, the way USB keys do. I guess I'm just old.