There are nine pins (not 10 and neither 11, only 9). Since pin zero is never used I assume that I have pins from 1 to 9 (0 excluded).
You are correct.
I am becoming more familiar to what the manual is saying. What I can not understand is this. When you say "OFF" I understand 0, this means I do not have to connect any peace of plastic right? In that case wht is the difference between '0' and '-' in that manual?
If it says 0, you don't have to connect the piece of plastic (it's called a jumper).
There is '-' written in the manual when that jumper (or group of jumpers) is NOT being discussed. For example, the DMA setting is jumper 7, which is either 0 or 1 (OFF or ON). The rest of the jumpers has a '-'.
After a few jumper changes, I can confirm the following, if I for example put an incorrect jumper the light on the IDE -> CF card does not switch on, while it does switch on when I put the plastic (1) on pin 5 and 7. However still nothing comes up.
You should only have a jumper on 5 and 7.
Do you have the CF-IDE adapter jumpered as master?
Maybe you should test it with a harddisk to see if that works.
If it does, maybe the CF card is the culprit.
Additionally, If I connect a normal drive then can I let the jumper settings as they are, that is I set pin 5 and 7 on?
Yes you can leave it as it is.
