Why does a SATA hard drive have jumpers?
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Back in the days of PATA hard drives, a person used jumpers on the drive to indicate whether the drive was the master or the slave of the channel, or to let the cable select which drive was which. SATA drives are one-per-channel, one-per-cable, etc. What are the jumpers for on SATA hard drives?
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Some SATA drivers have jumpers for extra features, or for troubleshooting. Example from the manual of a Western Digital SATA disk: Set the Jumpers The default setting for WD SATA hard drives varies depending on the model. To determine the default se…
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