Setting the Jumpers and Locating Pin 1

Before you install any IDE devices, you need to check the settings of the device’s jumpers and locate pin 1 on the drive connector.

The jumpers indicate the master and slave configuration of devices connected to both of the IDE interfaces. A table in the “Information for Qualified Hard Disk Drives” section of Appendix A lists the master and slave jumper settings for EPSON-qualified, high-capacity, IDE hard disk drives. If your hard disk drive is not listed in that table, check the documentation that came with it or call the manufacturer for the jumper settings.

Note

You may also want to look at the information that came with your drive and make a note of the drive parameters (such as cylinders, heads, etc.), in case the auto-sensing feature in SETUP cannot detect these parameters when you configure the drive.

If you are installing another type of IDE device, such as an IDE CD-ROM drive, check the documentation that came with the device for the master and slave jumper settings. You must connect these devices to the secondary IDE interface, as described in this chapter. Use theprimary interface to connect only IDE hard disk drives.

Installing and Removing Tower Drives

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