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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190846324.30856.18.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <365760.62926.qm@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> Determines if the drive is master or slave in the
> BIOS. 
> 
> But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm
> astonished that someone doesn't know that. 
> 
> If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to
> know what the jumper is for.

Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select"
enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive
(which are prone to error).

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25  3:38 [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum maxim wexler
2007-09-25 14:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-25 17:58 ` Dan Farrell
2007-09-26  2:20   ` maxim wexler
2007-09-26 21:54     ` Dan Farrell
2007-09-26 22:06       ` maxim wexler
2007-09-26 22:38         ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2007-09-26 22:59           ` Dan Farrell
2007-09-27  0:47           ` W.Kenworthy
2007-09-27  1:19             ` Dale
2007-09-27  1:33             ` Iain Buchanan
2007-09-27  2:10               ` Dan Farrell
2007-09-27 15:10         ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-09-27 15:31           ` Florian Philipp

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