jumper question...

[XKawN]

i'm starting to build my pc (holy shiznit thems alot of wires) and i remember reading on another thread someone saying, "don't forget to pull the jumpers". is there like a jumper one needs to pull on the hard drive or something?? or somewhere else in the build that one should be aware of??? heres my system other than a few minor changes...thanks.


please help with new build...

[Negeva]

This should help: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/op/jump.htm

Basically in the olden days before SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) connections hard-drives and optical drives connected via IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) now commonly called PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment).

IDE/PATA used jumpers to select the Master and Slave drive; thus for hard-drives the Master was generally the boot drive.

If you're building a machine using SATA then there is really now need to worry. Basic rule is to put the booting hard-drive on the lowest numbered SATA port.

[Alaron]

XKawN, you just need to pull the jumper off of the drive. Seagate 7200.11s come with the 1.5 speed enabled for older chipset compatibility. Just remove it to move up to the 3Gbps.

[XKawN]

ahhh, that's what it was. thanks. i remmember seeing that in another post.