Mac Hard Drive Jumper Question


  1. windude99
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    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
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    Mac Hard Drive Jumper Question


    I have a hard drive that I would like to use with other drives, but it is missing the jumper (plastic thing that lets you select cable select, master, etc.) How do I make another one?
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  3. archer
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    I am not an expert on drives and please correct me if I am wrong. I think we don't need jumpers now a days. As, they are connected via SATA and they automatically gets detected as master or slave.
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  4. LMiller7
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    Normally only PATA drives had jumpers for master and slave selection. On SATA drives these concepts have no meaning.
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  6. windude99
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    The computer is a Powermac G4 MDD. It is from the early 2000's. It only has ATA.
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