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