turbochris

some old CD drives had master, slave, cable select, and single. 4 choices. WD is no jumper for single. most maxtors don't have a single setting.

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acetaminophen

if it is set to master it means that there is also a slave so it looks for it. If there is one in a few seconds it will continue booting up. If there is none it gets hung for a few seconds extra looking for it. Setting it to single makes it so that it knows there is only one hard drive.

Jeremyvnc

Exactly and cable select selects the drive that is last on the ide (EIDE) cable as the master and the other(s) as slaves of it. If your driver doesn't have a "single" setting, set it to cable select and you should get faster boot up times. Reason for that is that the computer has already searched the entire cable and knows the location of the drives when it finds the master. I usually set my drives to cable select unless I can manually configure the drive specs (heads, sects, ect) in the bios (at which time I make them master and slave).

[edit]Just rememebered that to be able to use the cable select feature your IDE, EIDE, or UltraIDE must support the cable select feature.[/edit]

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