If he's setting jumpers, the drive is PATA, not SATA. At 03:28 PM 2/3/2008, Jeff Wright wrote: >Another thing to consider is that mobos only 3 years old or so will have >SATA I support, but may not recognize SATA II drives, even though they are >supposed to be backwards compatible. I've been burned by this. > >It's very hard to find SATA I drives any longer. > >> -----Original Message----- >> Loose data or power cable? If the motherboard and data cable support >> "cable select" (CS), then both drives should be jumpered CS. If not, >> then they should be jumpered 1) master, and 2) slave. If the first >> drive was jumpered "single", then you would have to change it to >> "master". With Western Digital drives, "single" is generally no >> jumper, or with the jumper "parked" (jumper is horizontal, across two >> pins on the ground side). >>
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