From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-70006-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Iafkw-0005OB-Mm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:53:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8QMhYW1021493; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:43:34 GMT Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8QMcjl1015969 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:38:46 GMT Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0FB2FF7E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:38:45 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: VtQAHMGPgGpDqefHYeBnDLadmx4UU0uRnJCHpXmwAEfd 1190846325 Received: from [10.6.104.131] (nat-vlan0201.sat4.rackspace.com [64.39.0.39]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758033A49 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <365760.62926.qm@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <365760.62926.qm@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1190846324.30856.18.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c8e62ecc-5fcd-45ed-9815-01bababc06e0 X-Archives-Hash: 4a68ebc8689aa484fd8c29f52ca815e7 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). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list