Hugh Vandervoort's post (clipped) <<< There's a jumper photo here: http://www.infohq.com/Computer/hd-jumper-pins-ribbon-cable.htm>>> Will I be correct in assuming that the jumper connection shown in the photo (the jumper connected to two adjacent pins "horizantally")is specific to the "Maxtor diamond max plus " as stated in the caption? the reason for my query is that in all hdd/cd-rw/cdrom/ I have seen the jumper has to be connected to two adjacent pins "vertically". the oldest i have seen is my own 6 year old "quatum fireball" 4 gig. just to get a bit of knowledge... TIA and good day---Venkat PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml