wht is the purpose of using a jumper? y do we need it?
2006-11-26 17:52:32 · 6 answers · asked by bublu 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
This is for the motherboard to determine which drive is the master and which is the slave.
2006-11-26 17:58:04 · answer #1 · answered by JaH-P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main purpose is switching an IDE drive, or another old drive, between master and slave. Old drive interfaces only supported two attached devices.
On SCSI disks the jumpers selected the SCSI ID.
In the end it depends on the drive, but the purpose of the jumpers is usually printed on the disk drive label.
2006-11-26 17:57:16 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jumper is used for changing the mode of hard drive to master or slave mode in order to use it with other hard drives in one PC
2006-11-26 20:25:01 · answer #3 · answered by engr_ehsen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothin realy just to annoy and bug us causing us to loose sleep over a little thought of what a lil jumper does
if you want a serious answer it just identifies it as a master or slave HDD if you have multiple HDDs
2006-11-26 17:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by dforch 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
jumper use to identify youe HD function or position, like secondary or primary master/slave
2006-11-26 17:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by charjim20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for selecting which is the primary and secondary master.
2006-11-26 18:03:15 · answer #6 · answered by rommel e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋