> Jumper settings for a hard drive include master, slave and cable
> select. What does this mean?
Jumper settings give the bios the ability to go after hard drives and
cd-roms in a certain order. First the master hard drive then the slave
drive. This applies if you have more than one physical hard drive. The hard
dive that is your C: or the one with you OS on it is generally the master
drive the ones after are slaves. The IDE cable also recognize a master and
slave if jumper settings are not installed  the connector in the "middle" is
the master and the one on the end is a slave. I prefer to use jumper
settings on mine, I have had the cable select sometimes select the wrong
drive. If you have only one drive set it for master. If you have a CDrom
also on the same IDE cable set it for slave.
Thanks,
Brendhan Horne
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