That's so true and I mixed it up. I'm very sorry.
SCSI is different from IDE (not only referring to the number of pins),
Doug is absolutely right.
But I don't think it'd cause any damage.
Many drives have their address codes on their cases.
They can differ by manufacturer or year
>At 15:53 +0100 10/28/09, WhyOSX wrote:
>>Usually the first and the third, counted from the drive slot,
>>will address it at "3" ("slave"); you'll need two jumpers for that.
>
>Warning:
>
>"first" and "third" can be confusing. The jumper pins are binary representing
>values 1,2, and 4. They may be labelled A1, A2, and A4 or A0, A1, and A2
>depending on what the circuit board designer had for lunch. The first and
>third in that sense would result in SCSI identifier 5.
>
>"master" and "slave" usually refer to the two possible identifiers in IDE or
>ATA disk busses.
>
>Manufacturers of disk drives are very good about having manuals available on
>their web sites. It's worth a look.
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