220-801 · Question #300
220-801 Question #300: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is C: Move the jumper on the secondary drive off of master. On older PATA/IDE drives, a physical jumper on the drive configures it as Master, Slave, or Cable Select. If two drives on the same IDE channel are both jumpered as Master, only one will be recognized - the other is invisible to the BIOS. Moving the secondary drive's jumper to Sl
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Options
- ARemove the CMOS battery to clear the BIOS settings
- BMove the cable on the motherboard to a different port
- CMove the jumper on the secondary drive off of master
- DEnable the S.M.A.R.T. setting in the BIOS
Explanation
On older PATA/IDE drives, a physical jumper on the drive configures it as Master, Slave, or Cable Select. If two drives on the same IDE channel are both jumpered as Master, only one will be recognized - the other is invisible to the BIOS. Moving the secondary drive's jumper to Slave (or Cable Select) resolves the conflict. Clearing BIOS settings (A) would not fix a jumper conflict. Moving the cable port (B) could help in some scenarios but is not the root cause here. S.M.A.R.T. (D) is a health monitoring feature unrelated to drive detection.
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