Removing cap/jumper on Seagate 250gb HD

[KennyD]

Hey guys, I was looking at my hard drive and saw that it says 1.5/3.0 on the hard drive. There is a jumper blocking 2 of the pins, so I can only get 1.5

My question is, how do you remove the jumper?

Thanks,
Kenny

 

[peterhuang913]

Get a tweezer or use your fingernails. Cmon, we're human: gotta figure out a way. Hope your build is going well.

 

[eyeCpc]

The simple answer to that is Sata II drives come with the jumper set to default. That enables all modes while moving the jumper changes the maximum to a different mode.

I wouldn't get bent out of shape anyways since the ATA limitations are still seen on Sata drives even while being on a faster bus simply due to hardware constraints at the present time. A new type of storage method would be the means to see the real benefit of the faster bus if another wasn't already developed for anything new by that time.

 

[KennyD]

Hey by the way guys, I did not receive any cables with this hard drive, all I got was a HD. It was from new egg.

What cables do I need to hook up this hard drive? Please help me out..

 

[peterhuang913]

You need an SATA cable and the power plug from the PSU. The SATA cable should be included with your motherboard. Look in that box.

 

[thirdshiftdj]

you can either use sata power if your psu has it or 4pin molex

 

[KennyD]

yeah my corsair 450w ps has a SATA connector, is that all I need?

The sata cable that came with my mobo (2) doesnt fit it. It fits my optical drive though.

How does that connect to my motherboard? I am lost guys


*edit*
I thought I'd need a cord to connect to the motherboard. the sata cable does not fit, it's L shaped and it doesn't fit onto the hard drive

I am definately confused...

 

[b1gapl]

Suppose to be like this:

And the port on the motherboard, that you're suppose to connect the SATA data cable (interface connector), looks like these blue ports:

 

[SHaTTaFaKKaP]

ya, it should fit, unless you bought a Ultra-ATA or IDE drive,

 

[peterhuang913]

It should fit. Try turning it around 180 degrees, lol.