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What are the common jumper settings for hard drive configuration?
Primary master and secondary master
What determines master or slave on ide ribbon cable?
The Jumper Settings
How can you change the master HD with the slave one in your dell PC?
Go the website of the company that manufactured your drives. Find the correct jumper settings and set the jumper for the one you want as master at the master pin and plug the main IDE cable into it. if you want to run the other as slave, find the correct jumper setting for slave, then plug the second IDE cable into it.
What is so great about Mario?
he is the master of fire and the 2nd best jumper ever
What type of hard drive do you have to set a master and slave jumper for?
Some IDE drives have a master/slave jumper, but a significant number of IDE drives defaulted to a "cable select" setting where the drive would determine for itself whether it was the master or the slave by which of the two sockets on the cable it was plugged into.
What is the function of cable select jumper setting?
The function of cable select jumper setting is to let the cable select which drive takes priority ("master") and which one comes after ("slave").
When two drives connect to the same data cable how does bios know which is the master and slave?
depends on the BIOS and the Hardirves. Some older IDE drives have a switch or a jumper on them that u can select Master or Slave. Some computer you can change this in the BIOS. Master being the controller and slave being the controlled
What is the purpose of a jumper?
A jumper is used to complete a circuit on a motherboard or other device and thus signal a certain mode of operation, such as "the BIOS should be in recovery mode" or "this hard drive is the Master device."
If a single hard disk is attached on a primary IDE channel what should the jumper be set to?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
What should the primary jumper be set to On a primary IDE channel if a single hard disk is attached?
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
What is the function of the jumper on the hard disk?
Jumpers can do a lot of things, some motherboards have many of them. Basically they are a manual switches, that can be closed by shorting them with a jumper cap. Some examples are, jumpers that set the CPU speed, or reset the BIOS memory.
Your hard disk is working as a salave but not working as a master?
Change your Jumper Configuration On the hard drive.1. Power Off PC and uplug it.2. Open Case Locate Hard Drive.3. Unplug 40 pin IDE cable and 4 pin power cable4. Unscrew Harddrive from rack.5. Remove Harddrive and look at the side with the pins6. You will see a set of 6 pins with a plastic "jumper" connecting two of them look at the sticker on your Hard-drive and you should see configurations for the jumper, set it to master by removing the "jumper" and placing it as the pictures shows for the master setting.7. Re-mount, Re-plug, Close the case, Plug Power Cable.8. Power on and enter Bios9. Make sure Bios "sees" the drive and it is set to master.10. Exit without save and Boot.
