master, slave, primary, secondary

TigerUK · 25 Nov 2010 at 15:31

Is this stuff relevant any more?

I rememebr 5 years ago if I got them wrong my drive would not boot up at all, these days, it's a lot simpler than that, I've never needed to configure the jumpers in my drives, ever. None of my drives even have jumpers.

But drives till come with instructions for jumper settings.

Am I missing something here?

oO Stevie Oo · 25 Nov 2010 at 15:33

Old IDE drives had adjustable jumpers,
Sata and Sata II dont need adjusting

TigerUK · 25 Nov 2010 at 17:48

Ah Ok, that makes perfect sense.

Thanks

Duke · 25 Nov 2010 at 18:52

Yeah they are pretty redundant now that SATA is only one device per cable. The only thing you need to change is the order the BIOS uses the drives in, to make sure the OS disk is first.

mrtckane · 26 Nov 2010 at 01:59

sata ports, you will notice, still come in pairs, a master and a slave, but you don't need to touch the jumpers at all.

ide always annoyed me with all that garbage.

ubersonic · 26 Nov 2010 at 08:49

mrtckane said:
ide always annoyed me with all that garbage.

The old PATA design meant that you could connect 4 devices using 2 ports on the motherboard which was epic at the time (considering the connection method we had before).

Deleted member 77746 · 26 Nov 2010 at 08:57

mrtckane said:
sata ports, you will notice, still come in pairs, a master and a slave, but you don't need to touch the jumpers at all.

ide always annoyed me with all that garbage.

But it wasn't hard though. Master, Slave, CS. Either, OR. I found it not a problem to be honest. Still messier but since Sata came about it's cool.