lumby

Just got the new hard drive to increase capacity on my desktop sysytem , however on the jumpers for the new drive (it's as IBM deskstar 60GB 3.5 EIDE" PCW280982) it gives me four options for slave /master settings

they are

1) 16 HEADS
2) 15 HEADS
3) 32GB CLIP
4) AUTO SPIN DISABLE

Help whats this all about , last time i sasked the question i was told the iDe cable plugs in , the power does and the jumpers need changing to slave .

Can anyone shd any light on the above in order that i get the jumpers the roght way round.I need to establish which option i should be using 1,2,3 or 4 and then I can follow the jumper setting specific to the option.

The exisiting hard drive is a Seagate module that appears to just have one set of jumper settings specific to the machine as far as I can see.

Thanks

Mr.M

The auto spin disable feature stops the drive from spinning up on power up until it gets an initialisation command from the IDE controller.

I don't know what the others are for. Maybe for older BIOS's which require address translation to access larger drives

ChrisB

Erm, not seen the drive but I'd reckon the master / slave jumper(s) is somewhere else. To me, those options have nothing to do with master/slave settings.

Jon743

I would agree leave these alone. look at the back of the drive next to the power connecter. There should be some jumpers there. These are the ones you wanna fidle with

Silent Monkey

The jumpers lumby is talking about are the master/slave jumpers and are near the power connector, so no point looking for any others

If you use the 15 or 16 head settings depends on exactly how the system supports drives over 4GB. The 16 head settings are the default and the most commonly used. You don't want the 32GB clip unless you want (or need) to limit the drive capacity to 32GB. This is necessary for some systems.

16 head settings are usually the ones to go for first.

lumby

cheers thanks for the reply, the settings are definitely for the jumper but diffent options , the last post re 16 heads seems to fit in i will try that first .

thnaks everyone