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Hi, |
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler |
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<blissfix@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what |
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> > does the jumper do? |
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> Determines if the drive is master or slave in the |
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> BIOS. |
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> But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm |
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> astonished that someone doesn't know that. |
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> If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to |
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> know what the jumper is for. |
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There are often much more jumper settings on HDs. Many HDs e.g. have |
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different geometry settings they can work with. Some of them need this |
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geometry information to be set by a jumper setting. Others have special |
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monitoring capabilities that are being used for factory checks or even |
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interfacing the controller. It's not just Master/Slave... |
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In fact, if you change the geometry setting on the HD, this might cause |
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major trouble and look a bit like disk errors, I guess. |
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-hwh |
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