Seagate HDD jumper trouble

[DJ EndurancE]

I just got a new Seagate 250GB hard drive, here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148141


I'm having some trouble with the jumper block, as usual with Seagate. It shows how to configure as a Master, or for Cable Select, but says nothing about how to configure as a Slave. (I'm not even sure what Cable Select is!)

Would love some help on this please!

 

[atomic tofu]

cable select is usually used by brand pc makers...
AT Attachment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the above may also answer your other questions

let's go back further...you can normally ignore jumpers...
so how many drives do you have?
if you have this one drive only, you didn't need to do anything

 

[DJ EndurancE]

Thanks for the link -- some of that is a bit over my head though.

I currently have one hard drive in my computer, configured as Master, with the operating system on it. So I'd be adding this second one on the same primary IDE cable.

I've ignored jumpers before, and ran into lots of problems, so I'm just being careful here.

 

[DJ EndurancE]

Any other ideas?

 

[atomic tofu]

take a really clear closeup pic of what you did
busy work day...maybe I can figure out something on the weekend, unless someone else...or you do

 

[DJ EndurancE]

Yeah, surpised no one else has posted.


I'll get a picture up for ya by Saturday..................

 

[DJ EndurancE]

Okay, here's what's on the top face of the HDD. Other Seagates seem to use a similar graph.

http://djendurance.ownageland.com/other_files/250gb_seagate_jumper_config_guide.JPG

 

[atomic tofu]

aight
master drive...set master jumper
slave drive...remove jumpers
typically you can hang the jumper off of the master, like turning it 90-180 degrees so that one pin is on, just to keep the jumper from getting lost

here, for future reference
Seagate Technology - ATA Jumper Settings

you can experiment with cable select if you want...have to have the right cable

 

[DJ EndurancE]

Cool, thanks!

I'll bookmark that page for future referance -- I'm always getting confused by different jumper setups on different types and brands of HDDs, lol.


I got the disk in the computer now, and it auto configured itself as a slave, so everything's fine on that. But I'm having some trouble initializing it -- I'll post more on that in another topic.



Thanks for your help though!