Re: Installing Second Hard Drive

From: Lee S (leesantosnospam_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:25:31 -0400

all you need to do is set the pins to both drives to cable select 

-- 
Lee S
" Gino" <lets@have.org> wrote in message 
news:u%23$FbAvYEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I am confused on the terms on Western Digital's website on jumper settings
> for getting second hard drive to work.
> I have a Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro SP1 computer.
> I bought Western Digital 250GB HD.
> I already have a 100GB HD installed in the PC with 2 partitions. The 
> jumper
> settings on this, primary, hard drive is: 16 Head, Device 0 Master.
> I want to install Western Digitial 250GB drive as a slave.
> They both share one cable connected to the motherboard.
>
> My question is on jumper settings.
> WD 250GB drive came with 1 jumper on the pins and an extra jumper in a 
> bag.
> My old drive has 2 separeate jumpers.
>
> I have set one jumper on WD 250GB on slave which has 10 pins.
>
> Do I need to use the second jumper since my old drive has 2 jumpers on the
> pins, or is it an extra "just in case" jumper?
>
> PS. Here is the help site from Western Digital.
> I had no idea where to post this. Western Digital is not a good helper, 
> and
> I've been getting usable responses from Microsoft newsgroups.
>
> Thank you
> Gino
>
>
>

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