[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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