Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: > 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
Or they restrict themselves to a lower capacity in order to work with an old bios. Mine do, for example. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
