Setting the Hard Disk Drive Jumpers

You need to check or change the hard disk drive jumper settings if you are doing either of the following:

Q Installing one or two hard disk drives

Cl Removing one hard disk drive and leaving another in your system.

If you are removing your only hard disk drive, you do not need to set any jumpers. See “Removing a Hard Disk From the Vertical Position,” on page B-24, for instructions.

Before you install any hard disk drive in your computer, you need to check or change the jumper settings on the drive(s). The jumpers tell the computer whether you are using one hard disk drive or two.

If you remove one hard disk drive and leave another in your computer, you need to change the jumper settings on the remaining drive to indicate that you now have only one hard disk drive installed.

The following table lists the jumper settings for all the possible hard disk drive configurations.

 

 

Drive configurations

 

Jumper

One hard

Two hard disk

Two hard disk

positions

disk drive

drives: master

drives: slave

 

 

 

 

HSP

-

-

-

C/D

X

X

-

DSP

-

X

-

ACT

X

X

X

 

 

 

 

X = jumper installed

- = no jumper installed

B-4 Installing and Removing Disk Drives