WIN2K/NT PEOPLE: You can't have two jumpers on an HD

[LordSwedish]

I noticed a lot of problems with people in any Win2k/NT situation here.

If you have two hard drives and you have two jumpers on the slave hard drive (commonly illustrated in installation sheets on Maxtor and Western Digital, IBM) then this will NOT work in any NT or 2K setup and the drive will not show up at all, or will only show a very small amount.

Hope that helps many ppl in here.

 

[HalfCrazy]

hmmm are you sure? I use to have (2) Maxtor hdd's which you need to set 2 jumpers. They both worked fine on my win2k box. They was even set to slave.

 

[LordSwedish]

Nope....maybe it is with your particular model. But I know most of the models require this. It's on Maxtor's knowlege library itself.

Not sure why, but you don't need a two jumper configuration. It's not necessary (at least not for my HD's) to have the two jumpers. Not in Linux, 98, or ME...or XP..

 

[RaiderJ]

I'm running Win2K on a P-180 machine that didn't support >2.4 GB hard drives. In order to get the system to recognize my 6.4 WD HD, I had to use a special 2 jumper configuration, in conjunction with EZ-BIOS. So, at least in my experience, Win2K works with hard drives with 2 jumpers.

When I installed another 1.2 GB HD, Windows recognized the drive just fine.

 

[JackBurton]

<< If you have two hard drives and you have two jumpers on the slave hard drive (commonly illustrated in installation sheets on Maxtor and Western Digital, IBM) then this will NOT work in any NT or 2K setup and the drive will not show up at all, or will only show a very small amount. >>


That's not true. I have two jumpers on my slave drives on Windows 2000 Pro and Server and it works perfect. The slave drive usually has two jumpers on it but you'll notice one is not shorting the pins (usually with newer larger capacity drives, 10GB+), which essentially means there is only one jumper on the drive but technically there are two.