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Installing the Hard Drive 5
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Determining the Correct Jumper Setting
The correct jumper setting for your hard drive depends on your current system configuration
and how you want to use the new hard drive. The recommended jumper settings below will
work on many, but not all, systems.
• If you are building a new system, use the cable select setting on all ATA devices to make it
easier to configure your system.
• If you have an existing system, check the jumper settings on your current boot drive and
your CD-ROM drive. If these drives are using master/slave jumper settings, use the master/
slave jumper settings on your new hard drive. If your current boot drive and CD-ROM
drive are using the cable select setting, use cable select on the new hard drive.
Internal CD-ROM, DVD, Zip, and Jaz drives with an ATA interface are known as ATAPI-
compliant devices. If the new hard drive is being attached to a cable to which an ATAPI
drive is already attached, you should configure the hard drive as master and the ATAPI
device as slave OR both devices as cable select, with the ATAPI device attached to the
gray connector on the ATA cable. To avoid potential issues with hard drive detection and
performance, Maxtor does not recommend attaching a hard drive as a slave on the same
cable as an ATAPI device. (For cable configuration, see “Existing System 3” on page 11.)
To determine your hard drive’s jumper style
1. Remove the hard drive from its anti-static bag.
2.
Locate the jumper block on the back of hard drive. The jumper block is located to
the right of the ATA connector on the hard drive. See Figure 5.
3. Match the jumper block to jumper style A, B, or C shown in Figure 5. To
determine if you have jumper style C, look for model number D740X or D540X-4K on the
label located on the top of the hard drive.
Jumper Styles B & C
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Figure 5. Determine Jumper Style
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