Maxtor 40gb hard drive as master

see the picture below for jumper setting

if you want to boot from this drive, please set the jumper to the master position.

if this drive is for additional storage, please set the jumper to slave. and make sure 1st hard drive is set to master.

if this is the only drive in the system, please set the jumper to single or remove the jumper.

there will be a chart telling you which pins are for which setting in the jumper area, which is between the data plug and the power plug on the back of your HDD.

main thing that will cause drives to not work is 2 jumpers on the same cable and they both are set to the same thng.. i.e. master/master or slave/slave. also, if one is set to single drive it will likely bypass the slave drive.

here is a poster of Maxtors jumper settings for each kind of drive.

Howdy,

First "easy" one I've had in hours....

Just pull the J50 pin out of the jumper block and PRESTO it'll be a slave the OFF position literally reffers to having the J50 pin off of the hard drive. Just a note though, I highly recommend using a peice of scotch tape to affix the pin to a nearby surface cause there a real pain to find if and when you need em again.


Chris,
Armor-IT

(if both drives on the same cable):
Your boot drive goes at the end of the primary data cable.
Your second drive goes on the middle connection of the same cable.
The red stripe on the data cable needs to be closest to the power connection (red stripe to pin 1).
The jumper on the boot drive set to master.
The jumper on the second drive set to slave.
Look in the BIOS to make sure it sees both harddrives.
Boot the system.. it will need to be partitioned and formatted if not already..
Regards..

Hi,
Find the jumper settings for the maxtor harddrive on the following link. As per the model number you gave ,it seems like you have the maxtor diamond max drive.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=379

Thanks
proton

set the jumper on the maxtor to cable select and see if that fix's things ?

Here is a picture of the jumper settings for most Maxtor hard drives:

http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/mxo_ata_jumpers.gif

Here you have MANUAL'S

i think it's a conflict with the two hard drives maxtor (ata) and westen dig(eide) ,.....could be wrong....maxtor 40gb....west,260gb let me know