I am putting a second harddrive in my computer. I have a cable that has two heads on it. I know which cable head to put where, to select the master and slave drive, but i dont know which jumper to select. My hard drives are identical, and they have four jumper options. They are both on the second option. Which option should i change it to if anyone knows?

Here is a picture of what jumpers they have on:
http://www.img.photobucket.com/album...308/Jumper.bmp

Thanks,
Andrew

What brand hard drive? You been to thier website?

quantum bigfoot 12.0 gig. I still cant find anything or figyre it out

You prolly won't find much support for the old Quantum drives. You are just going to have to guess.

One time by brother guessed, got it wrong, and crashed a hard drive. Is that possible with newer drives? His was like 8 years ago.

It'* a possiblity. I've never seen it happen, but I can't deny that possibility.

i read the drive closely and found what looked like codes, switched the jumpers, and it worked.

With any IDE device, setting the jumper settings wrong can lead to device failure. However, I have never experienced this.. nor do I really want to test it either. I have set the jumpers wrong a few times, and all my IDE devices work..


-justin

http://service.maxtor.com/rightnow/i...%20jumpers.htm


that should do it.