Archives => 2007 => Topic started by: ADSR on August 08, 2007, 06:52:17 PM
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Post by: ADSR on August 08, 2007, 06:52:17 PM
When putting an ata drive in an external enclosure what would be the jumper mode, cable select slave... or ... ?
Thanks
GR
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Post by: chriskleeman on August 08, 2007, 07:37:54 PM
Are you connecting to the same bus or a different bus? some ATA cards have two separate busses... in general, it would have to be cable select or Master, slave is not an option for an external drive... It would depend on how you have things configured if you're using the same ATA bus for all the drives, but if you want to be able to boot from the external drive, probably not slave. More info please?
Chris K
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Post by: krissel on August 09, 2007, 01:37:37 AM
Is this a USB or FW external?
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Post by: gunug on August 09, 2007, 03:56:02 AM
I have 7 different enclosures between my job and my home and some are firewire and some are USB but all of them different brands and all of them use a drive set to master. This is not invariable but the electronics in these boxes are generally just interface stuff and they expect the drive controller on the drive itself to take care of data operations so the jumper would be set to master. I don't own any SATA enclosures, and only just recently even saw one, so I must reserve judgement on them!
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Post by: ADSR on August 09, 2007, 04:49:13 AM
I have 7 different enclosures between my job and my home and some are firewire and some are USB but all of them different brands and all of them use a drive set to master
Even if you chain two external drives...?
Thanks
GR
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Post by: gunug on August 09, 2007, 05:01:14 AM
If you have two external in the same box I would assume that it would be master and slave or cable select depending upon the cable. Cable select cables generally have a void or gap in one of the ribbon elements. The one type of drive box I've seen that took 2 drives was master/slave. If you have two external boxes, both with a single drive, they would be masters in both boxes (probably) and would be independent of one another.
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Post by: sandbox on August 09, 2007, 05:17:47 AM
Chaining parrellel ATA drives together doesn't require changing any settings for my FW drives.
This external drive is plugged into what? Firewire? USB?
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Post by: ADSR on August 09, 2007, 05:57:44 AM
It's gonna be a firewire external drive... when i'll be sure of the jumper setting :-)
GR
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Post by: krissel on August 09, 2007, 11:44:29 PM
I don't own any SATA enclosures, and only just recently even saw one, so I must reserve judgement on them!
SATA drives have no master/slave relationship so you don't have to worry about it.
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Post by: sunset on August 09, 2007, 11:54:56 PM
Can't tell you what setting you should use but will give you my configuration as an example...
Just today I took a formatted & partitioned drive out of one case and put it in a new MiniStack enclosure. The directions said explicately to set the jumper/s for Master. I'd been using it in another case set as Cable Select. My computer, an MDD G4, uses internal drive settings on Cable Select. So, even tho' I thought about it, I decided to just leave it on CS and hoped all would be right with it.
It was... as soon as it was hooked up and turned on in FW mode, the partitions appeared on the desktop and it was good to go. Love CS because it takes the guesswork out of it.
This probably didn't help but good luck finding out what you should use.
Laurel
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Post by: ADSR on August 10, 2007, 05:52:20 AM
As master in the external firewire enclosure everything's seems ok...
Thanks
GR
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Post by: tacit on August 15, 2007, 02:46:16 PM
In any external FireWire or USB enclosure, the drive should be set to Master. This is the case no matter how many external drives you have; if you have 5 external FireWire drives, you would set them all to Master. The FireWire logic takes care of addressing multiple drives.
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Post by: sunset on August 15, 2007, 08:19:44 PM
Tacit--are you saying that I should change my new FW external from Cable Select to Master??