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They don't. Jumper cables are used to charge a car battery. Hard drives have no use for such a device.

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Q: Why do IDE harddrives require jumper cables?
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IDE cabels have how many pins?

80 pins I believe this is wrong! IDE cables have 40 pins and 80 wires and IDE cables for notebooks have 44 pins


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master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.


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