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HDD Jumper settings
Name: sky42 (by geno1) Date: December 20, 2006 at 05:59:19 Pacific OS: W98 CPU/Ram: various Product: various
Comment:
Two questions: (1) if there are no other devices attached to the HDD IDE cable, does the HDD still need to be set to "Master"; and (2) I tinker with a variety of computers and their respective HDD's and find that the HDD jumper settings vary from "master" to "CS" to none. What causes this variety of settings? Is it the combination of BIOS and HDD type/size, or what?
Name: rb77701 Date: December 20, 2006 at 06:21:17 Pacific
Reply:
I believe that you would have to have the hdd set to either master or cs (cable select) if it is the only drive. I think the choice of cs or master is preference. If you set it to cable select then it does not matter which cable connector it is plugged into, it will auto detect accordingly if it is a master or slave.
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Response Number 2
Name: rb77701 Date: December 20, 2006 at 06:23:41 Pacific
Reply:
Just to add to my previous post, some drives will indicate if there is no jumper then that sets the drive as master.
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: December 20, 2006 at 06:37:52 Pacific
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My belief is that CS was invented by the big box builders so that drives could be added without moving any jumpers on the installed drives. CS requires that the Master drive be connected to the END connector on the cable and the Slave to the intermediate. When using Master/Slave settings there is no such restriction. I recommend using Master/slave. Some older systems won't recognise CS anyway.
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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: December 20, 2006 at 16:08:28 Pacific
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WD drives have a separate setting for a single drive on a cable and the master in a two-drive cabling setup. Other than that particular instance a single drive would normally be at 'master', unless you're using cable select.
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