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On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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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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Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" |
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enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive |
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(which are prone to error). |
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