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HELP! please anyone help me there's something wrong with my HD

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Rawker:

this may be common sense for most but i thought my HD was dead after i installed a new one, now 4 months later i pull it out of a box to try it again. while examining it i notice that there is a jumper setting for master or slave so i set it to slave and bam it works again. i also changed my setting on my new drive from slave to master and now it runs like 10x faster.

crashwg:

The master and slave jumper settings are dependant on which plug you use on the cable.  It goes something like this:

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Blue           Grey       Black

The Blue being the one you attach to the motherboard, Grey would be SLAVE and the Black one is MASTER.  There is also something called Cable Select (CS) which if your motherboard recognizes is a heck of alot easier.  Basicaly when it's set to CS, it doesn't matter which plug you use.  Also, some harddrives will have settings for single, as in when you will only be attaching 1 HD to the Black plug.  I'm not sure if there are any other types of jumper settings out there, but those are the ones you will mostly see.

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