Section 2. Installing Your PlexWriter
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Locating the Master Position on a Cable Select Cable
With Cable Select, Master and Slave are determined not by jumpers, but by the
connectors on the Cable Select cable. The connectors are identified as Master or
Slave.
Set the DMA Jumper
Your PlexWriter ships from the factory with no DMA jumper installed. (The pins are
empty.) The empty pins mean the drive is set to Ultra DMA. This setting should
work in most cases, so you don’t have to do anything more.
With some (generally older) personal computers that do not have an Ultra DMA IDE
chipset, the computer may “hang” or crash with the PlexWriter set to the default
Ultra DMA setting. If this happens, change the PlexWriter to Multiword DMA mode
by installing the spare jumper across the two DMA jumper pins just to the left of the
mode jumper pins.
Figure 11. Add the DMA Jumper if You Need to Change to Multiword DMA
