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    Laptop Hard Drives,how to set master and slave

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jgore, Jun 24, 2006.

  1. Jgore

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    I am trying to install raid on my laptop how ever when i have both in ,it freezes following bios check,i believe it is something to do with the four extra pins on the harddrive,any ideas?thanks.
     
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    You must check your BIOS first if your laptop can support 2 harddrives. 1 for primary master, another should primarly salve or secondary master and so on.
    Suppose you have to read the maual first, and vertify the manual mention about the 2 harddrive installation. If not, a jumper have to be set, but a small jumper is not come with normally. The default setting without any jumper is set as a master.
     
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    what does the jumper look like? i think thats what i have to do,the manual is a bit sketchy,,
     
    Jgore, Jun 25, 2006
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    laptop hard's jumper look like the desktop's hard drive one, but the size is very small. I have one which is from Seagate HD.
     
    Iter, Jun 25, 2006
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