Determine Your Existing Ide Configuration; Set The Drive's Jumper - Plextor PX-W1610TA Operation Manual

Section 2. Installing Your PlexWriter
Figure 3: Removing a Typical Computer's Cover

Determine Your Existing IDE Configuration

With your computer open, determine the existing IDE configuration. You can do this
by looking at the 40-pin IDE ribbon cable (or cables—there may be two) and seeing
what is connected to them.
One end of the IDE cable is connected to a port on the computer's motherboard; and
the other end is connected to one or two peripheral devices (such as a hard disk or
CD-ROM drive). If there are two devices, one is considered the master and the other
the slave. If there are two IDE ports, one is for the primary IDE bus and the other is
for the secondary bus.
A typical computer's IDE configuration is usually one of the following:
Hard disks connected as master and slave devices on primary IDE port;
CD-ROM drive connected as master device on secondary IDE port.
Hard disk connected as master device and CD-ROM drive connected as slave on
the primary IDE port; nothing connected to secondary IDE port.
Hard disk connected as master device on primary IDE port; nothing connected to
secondary IDE port.
System uses Cable Select cables; all devices are jumpered for Cable Select.

Set the Drive's Jumper

You specify your drive's master or slave setting before installing it. You do this by
changing the position of a jumper on the jumper block at the rear of the drive.
Your drive ships from our factory with its jumper set to operate the PlexWriter as a
master. This will work in the most commonly found environments.
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