[H-GEN] HD jumper settings

Harry Phillips harry at tux.com.au
Thu May 25 04:42:23 EDT 2006


Geoff Shang wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> Wondered if I could get some help from people on the list.
> 
> My flat mate has just purchased a new hard drive - a Western Digital 80 
> GB IDE drive.  But I'm having trouble getting it to come up as slave, 
> and haven't had any luck finding jumper settings online.
> 
> Here's the string which shows up in dmesg:
> 
> WD800BB-22JHC0
> 
> The drive came with a jumper across the top and bottom pins located 
> nearest to the power socket.
> 
> Any suggestsions will be most welcome.
> 
> Geoff.
> 

It's almost standard on new IDE HDD's that putting the jumper on the two 
pins furtherest from the power connector will make it a master, the one 
next to it (the middle) will make it cable select and no jumper will 
make it a slave.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips





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