question about slave jumper setting

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adrian

ive removed a drive from my machine, leaving the other slave drive in there.
is it ok to leave it set as a slave as its the only one on that channel?
 
ive removed a drive from my machine, leaving the other slave drive in there.
is it ok to leave it set as a slave as its the only one on that channel?
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Depends of your BIOS.
Try it; if it works, it's OK ;-)
 
Fabien LE LEZ said:
Depends of your BIOS.
Try it; if it works, it's OK ;-)
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its working, was wondering if it may cause other problems i.e data
corruption.

ah well too lazy to take it out to set the jumper to master, will replac it
with a sata drive next week. (got 3 sata drives allready :) )
 
its working, was wondering if it may cause other problems i.e data
corruption.
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Well, AFAIK there's no problem if the system boots up correctly (and
the BIOS detects all the drives).
Seems that the jumper settings are only read at boot time (and only on
a real "cold" boot, i.e. not a reboot) : I've changed them a few times
when the PC was running with no consequence at all (I used to have a
switch on my PC to set either hard drive as master -- kind of hardware
boottime OS selection ;-) ).
 
ive removed a drive from my machine, leaving the other slave drive in there.
is it ok to leave it set as a slave as its the only one on that channel?
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Yep, it'll normally work fine. And it will either work
or not, it wont bite if it appears to be working fine.
 
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