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    Atlas II Jumper Settings 50-pin Jumper Settings Jumper Settings The following describes the jumper options and setting s available on the Maxtor® Atlas™ II disk drive. Maxtor Atlas II was developed by Quantum Corp oration prior to its merger with Maxtor. Termination Enable (TE) Enable termination TE jumper on Disable termination TE jumper off 1 [...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings Termination Power (TP) Enable termination power TP jumper on Disable term ination power TP jum per off SCSI ID (A3, A2, A1, A0) Set drive SCSI ID See ID settings table below Delay Spin (DS) Enable spin delay SP jumper off Disable spin delay SP jumper on cStagger Spin Enable spin stagger SS jumper on Disable spin stagger SS [...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings 28-Pin Secondary Option Connector Pin S ignal P in S ignal 1 A0 2 logic_gnd 3 A1 4 logic_gnd 5 A2 6 logic_gnd 7 Fault LED 8 key (blank) 9 Busy LED 1 0 Spindle Sync 11 +5VDC out 1 2 unused 13 Delay Spin 1 4 logic_gnd 15 Stagger Spin 1 6 logic_gnd 17 Write Protect 1 8 logic_gnd 19 Spindle Sync 2 0 logic_gn The drawing above d[...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings SCSI ID Settings The following table identifies the va rious SCSI ID values and the jumper positions required to set them. Drive ID A0 A1 A2 ID 0 OFF OFF OFF ID 1 ON OFF OFF ID 2 OFF ON OFF ID 3 ON ON OFF ID 4 OFF OFF ON ID 5 ON OFF ON ID 6 OFF ON ON ID 7 ON ON ON 4 of 8[...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings 68-pin Jumper Settings Jumper Settings The following describes the jumper option s and settings available on the Maxtor® At las™ II disk drive. Maxtor Atlas II was developed by Quantum Corporation pr ior to its merger with Maxtor. Termination Enable (TE) Enable termination TE jumper on Disable termination TE jumper off N[...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings 6 of 8 Stagger Spin Enable spin stagger SS jumper on Disable spin stagger SS jumper off Write Protect Enable Write Protection WP jumper on Disable W rite Protection WP jumper off Jumper Locations The Atlas II wide disk drive has two locations where user configurable jumpers ar e found. The primary jumper block (Front option[...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings 7 of 8 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 A3 2 l ogic_gnd 3 A2 4 l ogic_gnd 5 A1 6 l ogic_gnd 7 A0 8 l ogic_gnd 9 Key (blank) 1 0 F ault LED 11 Delay Spin 1 2 l ogic_gnd 13 Logic ground 1 4 E nable Active Termination 15 Spindle Sync 1 6 S pindle Sync 17 Busy Led 1 8 + 5VDC out 19 W rite Protect 2 0 l ogic_gnd 21 Stagger Spin 2 2 l ogi[...]

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    Atlas II Jumper Settings Atlas II 9.1GB WD SCSI ID Settings The following table identifies the various SCSI ID values and the jumper positions required to set them. Drive ID A0 A1 A2 A3 ID 0 OFF OFF OFF OFF ID 1 ON OFF OFF OFF ID 2 OFF ON OFF OFF ID 3 ON ON OFF OFF ID 4 OFF OFF ON OFF ID 5 ON OFF ON OFF ID 6 OFF ON ON OFF ID 7 ON ON ON OFF ID 8 OFF[...]