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Does it matter jumper postions for a external HD??
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I believe that for most cases you're going to want the jumper 'disabled' or in the cable select position. If that doesn't work, it is certainly 'Master'. You wouldn't want it set to 'slave' in this application.
Got any more details about the drive? Do you at least have a jumper pinout printed on the drive? If not, you should be able to find it online based on the brand/model.
Got any more details about the drive? Do you at least have a jumper pinout printed on the drive? If not, you should be able to find it online based on the brand/model.
Thanks Trepex
Well its working now, bit strange why.
It was a Icy box usb / firewire enclosure with a hitachi 500gb hd.
Looking in disk utility the device would be present but no hd. the device name was garbled and reporting a 2 tb drive? trying to erase or partition would respond in disk utility crash or a inout/output error.
Anyway put the hd in a old pc to format it in ntfs (cant remeber), put it back in enclosure and its all working fine, just formatted it into apple
To be honest not overly impressed with icy box, cables a bit on the short side
Well its working now, bit strange why.
It was a Icy box usb / firewire enclosure with a hitachi 500gb hd.
Looking in disk utility the device would be present but no hd. the device name was garbled and reporting a 2 tb drive? trying to erase or partition would respond in disk utility crash or a inout/output error.
Anyway put the hd in a old pc to format it in ntfs (cant remeber), put it back in enclosure and its all working fine, just formatted it into apple
To be honest not overly impressed with icy box, cables a bit on the short side