Master/Slave Jumpers - Seagate Medalist Pro 6450 Installation Manual

4 Medalist Pro 6450, Medalist Pro 6451, Rev. C

Master/slave jumpers

If your new Seagate drive will be the only drive in your computer,
you do not have to change any jumper settings. In this case, skip
ahead to "Attaching cables and mounting the drive," on page 6.
If you already have one hard drive in your computer and you are
installing a second drive, you must configure one drive as a mas-
ter and the other as a slave.
The jumper on pins 6 and 8 is a spare and does not affect drive
operation.
To configure the drive as a master or one drive only:
•
Place a jumper on pins 7 and 8 (see Figure 1 on page 5).
The master drive usually defaults to being the "boot" drive
(drive C), from which the computer loads system software
when it first starts up.
•
If there is only one drive in your system, remove all jumpers.
To configure the drive as a slave:
•
Place a jumper on pins 5 and 6 (see Figure 1 on page 5).
•
If you need to change the jumpers on your existing hard drive,
see the Disk Manager online manual, look on the drive label,
or contact the drive manufacturer.