How to set jumpers on a hitachi hard drive - Computers & Internet

have you formated your hard drives? are your black or white jumpers hooked to the pins on top of hard drive? if the hard drives are new chances are the jumpers are still in small plastic package.the jumpers are little peaces of plastic with two holes with metal in them. the jumpers go on were it says master if you are using 2 hard drives .the other hard drive the jumper goes were it says slave. if you are using 1 hard drive you put the jumper on cs.

1. Decide which hard drive will be the startup (master) drive. If this drive was the startup drive previously, or if it's a new hard drive, then the master drive designation will already be set.
2. To change the designation of a new drive to be a slave drive, skip to step 4.
3. To change the designation of an existing drive to be a slave drive: Turn off the computer, unplug the power cord, remove the drive from its drive bay, and disconnect the drive from its power cord and ribbon cable.
4. Check the hard drive documentation or the label on the drive itself for master/slave jumper settings.
5. Find the jumpers on the circuit board of the drive. Jumpers are plastic plugs with metal sleeves that form a circuit between a pair of pins. Jumper locations are labeled on the board with a J followed by a number (such as J20).
6. Use tweezers or very small pliers to remove or reposition the jumpers to the configuration shown in the documentation or on the disk label.





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There should be, look on the rear of the drive, close to the SATA and power connectors, you should see the jumper connections as well.

It varies from drive to drive, but the jumper setting could be engraved near the connector, look of SL for a slave setting.

If no, look on the label on the top of the drive, there should be the jumper settings listed there.
Some may be ambiguous, my last one offered the option of Master on / off. (Jumper in position 1 for on, no jumper for off) The off in this case was of course slave.

The result being, no jumpers - Slave.

check that the jumpers on the drive are set properly for master or slave depending on weather the drive will be in a single or dual drive system and make sure that your cmos settings are set to detect the drive

Hi,

Have you checked the jumper settings of your hard drive. If you are running it on the same IDE cable as your master drive then you need to set up your Hitachi's jumpers as a 'slave' drive.
More often than not there are diagrams on the hard drive sticker to explain this configuration.
If these settings are as they should be and your system is still not detecting the drive make sure the hard drive is spinning by listening for a sound coming from it. If this is fine then chances are good that your drive has blown and not worth repairing.

Let me know if you need any further assistance.

Best wishes,
Graemevm

PATA drives have the jumper settings printed on the label.

With SATA drives there is no master and slave. Just select boot device in the BIOS.

Hi
There are no jumpers to set on a SATA drive since they all use individual interfaces with the motherboard.
All you can do is connect the drive you want as master to the first SATA header,slave to the second,and then set the boot priority in BIOS.
They don't have jumper pins like the old days.
Post again if you have questions,and if this helps would you rate my post?
Bob

Most hard drives I've come across have tiny little letters on the PCB next to the jumpers that say MA SL CS which are for master, slave, and cable select. If that doesn't work, go to Hitachi's website and search their support section. There is a diagram of the jumpers for that drive out there somewhere. Good luck!

The usual jumper settings for a hard drive are:

• Cable Select
  
  
• Primary
  
  
• Secondary

Cable select means that the mainboard will choose whether to make the drive primary or secondary. Most mainboards today support cable select. And, most drives will have their jumpers already set to cable select. You can just have all your drives set to cable select, and the mainboard will take care of the rest.

“Primary” means first and most important. Think of the primary as the one that usually takes control of the cable and gets its way. The secondary is like a little brother who must usually wait.

You usually want your main hard drive set as primary, or set it as cable select and have the mainboard set it as primary

It should work without any jumper settings.
If it fails to work then you can use a jumper to go for lower capacity option which i really feel you shoul never got to cause it will just work