Are jumpers used on new SATA hard drives?

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Bogdan Gerasimenko2015-07-30 09:17:22

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Bogdan Gerasimenko, 2015-07-30 09:17:22

Are jumpers used on new SATA hard drives to set slave\master\single? Or is it all in the bios? Just curious, because I still use the IDE interface.

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VBKesha, 2015-07-30
@VBKesha

There are jumpers, but they are made for a different purpose. They can limit the speed of the port to SATA-I or enable compatibility mode for drives with 4K sectors. In general, it all depends on the specific disk model.

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Valery Ryaboshapko, 2015-07-30
@valerium

SATA basically has no master-slave division. They simply have serial numbers, which depend on the numbers of the connectors on the board.

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Max, 2015-07-30
@MaxDukov

no. SATA has 1 port - 1 device.

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Dmitry, 2015-07-30
@plin2s

SATA - S for Serial
PATA - P for Parallel.
The answer lies in the acronym.

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seekinganswers, 2015-07-30
@seekinganswers

As the previous speaker said, no, everything is used through the BIOS.