ide jumper setting in a nas device

[TechBoyJK]

I have a DLINK Nas device.. It was working fine before I put in a new drive.. I never really tested it, lol, just knew that I formatted it, could find it on the network, and was able to write files to it..

But when I tried pulling files from it, I would get about 20kilobytes of the file before it would time out or it would pull 20k, pause for a minute, pull another 20k, pause, etc.. .. I got frustrated and brought the drive into work so I could try and get some data from the drive..

Anyways, I was looking at the drive, and I must have misread the jumper settings when I put the drive in.. I thought it said to set the drive to master that you had to remove all jumpers.. Now I take a second look, and basically I had the drive set to slave..

I guess this would explain why it could start to read and time out.. i would have figured that if the jumper setting was wrong, it wouldn't work at all. but could this be the problem? i dont have the nas with me to test it, but when I go home I'll test it..

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Is this a IDE drive or SATA? If SATA, the jumper settings have no effect.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Is this a IDE drive or SATA? If SATA, the jumper settings have no effect.

IDE

I'm perfectly aware of master/slave jumper settings.. im just wondering if since I had the settings wrong, that would explain sporatic read/write problems to the drive.. or if the problem is something else

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

No, the settings would only come into play during interrupts if you had another drive set to slave one the same connection.

Have you run the drive check utility from the manuf?