LiteOn Drive - Which Jumper?

[bpatters69]

Hello All,

I have a SATA, LiteOn CD\DVD with the model number sh-16a7s. Looks like it was built in 2006. I went to the LiteOn site and they are pretty horrible support-wise. No manual, no driver, no documentation at all on the drive. I did find a manual for a different LiteOn which is about the same age drive. The jumper settings in the manual say the jumpers go as follows from left to right (looking at the back of the drive)

CS SL MA

I will be installing this drive as the only drive on a brand new system. I plan to use Windows XP Home. Which setting should I place the jumper? CS or cable select? If anyone knows where a copy of the manual is, pls let me know.

Thanks, Bill

 

[Trashman]

If it's a sata drive than i would not put any jumpers on at all, shouldn't be any problem. just set boot order in BIOS....thats the advantage of sata drives, to eliminate jumpers.

 

[bpatters69]

Thank you Trashman

 

[corkyg]

Right - SATA drives need no jumpers when connected to a SATA port. Each is a separate channel. The jumper pins are present in case the drive has to be adapted to as PATA controller. Then it would be appropriate.

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: Trashman
If it's a sata drive than i would not put any jumpers on at all, shouldn't be any problem. just set boot order in BIOS....thats the advantage of sata drives, to eliminate jumpers.

This. Don't know why they would put jumpers on a SATA optical. Maybe this was an early SATA model.

 

[Ausm]

I didn't realize they had to put jumpers on a SATA drive, that's a new one to me.

 

[corkyg]

Like I said, the jumper pins are there (they don't provide the jumpers) for those who need to adapt the SATA device to a PATA controller. In such a case a jumper would need to be used.

 

[jackschmittusa]

The "CS SL MA" settings stood for: cable select, slave, master on IDE drives. Since an IDE channel could support 2 drives, the jumper setting (or cable connector placement in the case of CS setting) would tell the computer which drive had first call on resources.

SATA channels only support 1 drive, so the computer needs no multi-drive information; therefore no jumper required.

 

[Laputa]

It was a dual purpose circuit design that allows the manufacturer to put in either a SATA or PATA interface. Since you are getting SATA, no need to mess with the jumper.

 

[TeeJay1952]

I put a Sata drive into an older system the other day and it needed a jumper set to allow 150 meg transfer rate instead of the 300 possible. Without mini jumper set motherboard didn't recognize drive.