SATA Master/Slave

6 Apr 2005 6:20 PM

The Walmsley's

Hi

I'm about to get a new SATA H/D (Maxtor diamond plus 9 160GB) aswell as my
200GB version. I need to configure the previous 200GB drive to act as slave.
I have been advised to remove the jumper on it, so the 160GB acts as master,
but it appears the jumper is "permanent". I have checked the manual and it
says "Do Not Remove" the jumper.

How do I set it to slave then??

Any Ideas.

TIA

Nik.

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6 Apr 2005 11:05 PM

DaveW

Wrong. When using SATA drives there is NO Master or Slave. So you CANNOT
select as such with a jumper.

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"The Walmsley's" <nik.walmsleySPAMKILL@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I'm about to get a new SATA H/D (Maxtor diamond plus 9 160GB) aswell as my
> 200GB version. I need to configure the previous 200GB drive to act as
> slave.
> I have been advised to remove the jumper on it, so the 160GB acts as
> master,
> but it appears the jumper is "permanent". I have checked the manual and it
> says "Do Not Remove" the jumper.
>
> How do I set it to slave then??
>
> Any Ideas.
>
> TIA
>
> Nik.
>
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7 Apr 2005 2:32 AM

DevilsPGD

In message <d3198j$qh***@sparta.btinternet.com> "The Walmsley's"
<nik.walmsleySPAMKILL@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm about to get a new SATA H/D (Maxtor diamond plus 9 160GB) aswell as my
>200GB version. I need to configure the previous 200GB drive to act as slave.
>I have been advised to remove the jumper on it, so the 160GB acts as master,
>but it appears the jumper is "permanent". I have checked the manual and it
>says "Do Not Remove" the jumper.
>
>How do I set it to slave then??

You don't. Master/slave only applies to drives on the same physical
cable. Since SATA only allows one drive per cable, the master/slave
concept doesn't exist and no jumpering is required.

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Peter: Oh yeah

7 Apr 2005 8:44 AM

The Walmsley's

Ok, thatks for clearing that up.

Am I right in assuming that I choose which drive to boot from in the BIOS
then?

Basically, I sent the PC for repair (Back to MESH) and retained the H/D to
continue to work from it. MESH tell me I need a new MoBo and Graphics card,
and have also offered me a great deal to fit a new H/D.

They are configuring the PC to Boot from the New H/D (Which suits me because
my existing version of XP has a few little niggly errors that I can't
resolve) and I would like to just plug the old one in and it recognise that
as my "secondary" drive, with all my old files etc on.

Is it as simple as just plugging in the old drive then?

Many thanks again.

Nik.

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In message <d3198j$qh***@sparta.btinternet.com> "The Walmsley's"
<nik.walmsleySPAMKILL@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm about to get a new SATA H/D (Maxtor diamond plus 9 160GB) aswell as my
>200GB version. I need to configure the previous 200GB drive to act as
slave.
>I have been advised to remove the jumper on it, so the 160GB acts as
master,
>but it appears the jumper is "permanent". I have checked the manual and it
>says "Do Not Remove" the jumper.
>
>How do I set it to slave then??

You don't. Master/slave only applies to drives on the same physical
cable. Since SATA only allows one drive per cable, the master/slave
concept doesn't exist and no jumpering is required.

--
Peter: I read a book about this sort of thing once.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't nothing?
Peter: Oh yeah

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