HDD Question

[dispair]

I want to put my old Samsung drive into my new pc, use it as a primary drive and then use my new drive as the storage drive, do i need a jumper? i remember back in the day b4 the sata thing, you needed to place one on master one on slave. does this still hold tru?

 

[VirtualLarry]

If your drive is IDE, then yes, generally you need a jumper. Either one drive is jumpered to MASTER, and one to SLAVE, or both are jumpered to CABLE SELECT, and you use a cable-select cable to connect them. Most/all ATA-66+ 80-wire cables are wired for cable-select.

SATA drives do not need a jumper, unless you need to configure them for legacy (SATA150) operation.