On Jul 16, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jim Scott wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >>> >>> >>> I just installed two identical optical drives in my MDD, and when I go up >>> to the menu and click on "eject" the machine only recognizes one drive >>> (because they're both identical) How can I have control over each one >>> individually? how can I make the hdd see them differently? Jeff >>> >>> Set one as master, the other as slave. Usually, the drive at the end of the >>> cable is set as master. >> >> No, this is bad information. >> >> John Carmone is correct, you hold the option key down to eject the other >> drive. (this also works with the 'eject' key as well as the eject menu >> option) >> >> If the drives are recognized at all without setting those jumpers, the bus >> is a cable-select one, and the system *already knows* which is master and >> which is slave; if the cable select option was NOT working, the drives >> wouldn't appear to the computer until the jumpers were set. >> >> -- >> Bruce Johnson > > So the jumpers should be set as "cable select" then? on both? Jeff > > Everything on a MDD is Cable Select.
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