Originally Posted By: Phil.
My SATA drive does have jumpers with instructions on setting it to master or slave its just I have no jumpers I can try confused Its a Samsung F1 1gb drive in a Asus P5Q-EM board if that helps?

A Sumsung F1 drive does not need jumpers set. I'm currently using a couple of these drives without any problems. Maybe you should try a different SATA cable? (make sure the cable you're using is a SATA2 cable!)
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