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Originally posted by Bungleau:
Third, I know that IDE cables at one point did determine what was the master and slave on a particular connection, but I'm under the impression that that habit has gone by the wayside, and BIOS just uses the jumper settings.
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nope, the jumper settings have to agree with the IDE cable reading (try reversing your hard drives sometime and see if it fires up, it'll tell you that the master settings are incorrect).
also, there is no position for the jumper to be in a "non jumpered" setting. The connection it ships in is generally the "auto detect" setting, which should allow you to plug it into any IDE cable position and have function... the thing that baffles me is the fact that it doesnt work with no jumper, because no jumper should also normally function as auto-detect.