Yes it's my own fault of course. The disk is exactly the one Steve Reinis
shows in the picture. I had only seen jumper pins placed on the back of hard
drives and thought those were the jumper pins. But as Steve Reinis writes
the jumper pins are placed under the drive. Anyhow it was an old disk and
not worth to worry about.
"Steve Reinis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Does the hard drive in question look like the one seen in the photo?
>
> http://members.ispwest.com/ghlea/qdrive.jpg
>
> If so, those three pins are NOT meant to be jumpered. They are actually
> power supply connections! That explains the burning. See the red boxed
in
> area in the photo? Those are the mode jumpers for slave, master, etc.
>
> Some older hard drives have those oddball power connections. I've seen it
> once before an old 60 MB 3.5" hard drive that was installed in a Compaq
LTE
> 25 or some such nonsense laptop. Yes, a 3.5" hard drive in a laptop!
This
> was a monster of a machine - 286 processor, 10" monochrome LCD, very thick
> and very heavy unit.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> "M Shafaat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:OT3Ka.17457$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi Dave and all others,
> > Thank you for valuable advises, which have been a great help for me.
> > Some advises are anyhow rather harmful. An example is that Dave said
> > yesterday that "it should not hurt anything to jumper those pins just
long
> > enough to see if the drive is properly detected." Unfortunately I did as
> > Dave said and as soon as I put on the current, it began to burn and I
got
> > fire in my machine, it could finish bad. But we could bring it into
> control.
> > Fortunately it was only the subject hard drive which was damaged and it
> > doesn't matter so much because it was an old one.
> >
> >
> > Have a nice time
> > M Shafaat
> > 2003-06-24
> >
> >
> > "kony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:37:50 GMT, "M Shafaat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hi,
> > > >I have got an extra hard disk, a Quantom 2.5 GB over from an old
> machine
> > and
> > > >I want to use it as extra disk storage. But the problem is that the
HD
> is
> > > >set to be a master from the factory and there are only tree single
pins
> > on
> > > >the jumper place and no jumper. Is it possible anyhow to make it a
> slave?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >The tag on the HD with info about the jumper settings does not match
at
> > all
> > > >the real jumper place on the disk!
> > > >
> > > >Regards
> > > >M Shafaat
> > > >
> > > >2003-06-24
> > >
> > > All the Quantums I've seen had a double row of 4 pins (8 total) plus
> > > one more pin in-between those and the 40 pins for the cable. Removing
> > > all jumpers made the drive MASTER while jumpering the first vertical
> > > pair of pins (nearest the cable) made the drive slave.
> > >
> > > With only three pins it should be easy to figure out, I suspect that
> > > pins 1 and 2 are jumpered for SLAVE, and pins 2 and 3 are for CABLE
> > > SELECT. (or vice-versa). It should not hurt anything to jumper those
> > > pins just long enough to see if the drive is properly detected.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
> >
>
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