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When two drives connect to the same data cable how does bios know which is the master and slave?
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∙ 13y ago
depends on the BIOS and the Hardirves. Some older IDE drives have a switch or a jumper on them that u can select Master or Slave. Some computer you can change this in the BIOS. Master being the controller and slave being the controlled
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoTwo ways, setting the jumper on the drive to set as master or slave.
Or if you use cable select, the drive at the end of the cable should be the master.
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Which gives the proper sequence for installing master and slave id drives?
Mount the drives in the carrier connect the 40-pin cable to the drives set the drive at the end of the cable to master set the drive in the middle of the cable to slave install the drives in the computer and configure the drives
How many hard drives can connect to a single ide cable?
Only two drives can be supported on an IDE cable. One Master and one Slave.
What type of hard drive do you have to set a master and slave jumper for?
Some IDE drives have a master/slave jumper, but a significant number of IDE drives defaulted to a "cable select" setting where the drive would determine for itself whether it was the master or the slave by which of the two sockets on the cable it was plugged into.
Difference between Master and Slave hard Drive?
When connecting to IDE drives (whether they be hard disk drives or optical drives) on the same cable, the computer needs to be able to tell them apart. When using a 40 wire IDE cable, you have to identify one drive as Master and the other as Slave. You do this by positioning the jumpers on the end of the drive according to the diagram on the drive itself. When using an 80 wire cable, set the jumpers on both drives to the 'cable select' position and their Master and Slave classifications will be determined by their position on the cable.
What is the role of jumper in installation of hard disk?
Jumpers are used with the IDE (aka P-ATA) drives (hard disks or other drives like DVD recorder) . There can be two drives on the same cable with this norm, a master and a slave. The controller of the disk need to know if it is supposed to be the master or the slave. Jumpers are set to this purpose. There is a special mode called "cable select" where the position on the cable determines the mode (disk at the end of the cable is master, disk in the middle of the cable is slave)
How many hard drives can be connected to a single IDE Cable?
Only two drives can be supported on an IDE cable. One Master and one Slave.
When 2 drives are connected to the same data cable connected to an ide?
This is quite normal. IDE stands for Intergrated Drive Electronics. It basically means that most of the drive controller electronics are on the disk drive itself. You can connect 2 drives to one cable. One will be set as the master drive and the other will be set as the slave. The master drive then controls itself and the slave drive. The setting for slave/master is normally done by small connectors joining a pair of pins together called jumpers.
What are the four possible configurations for a PATA drive installed in a system?
Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Primary or Secondary will depend on which cable are you using to connect the drive. Master or Slave will depend on the drive's jumper configuration.
What is the difference between master IDE and slave IDE?
In computing, the terms "master IDE" and "slave IDE" refer to the primary and secondary IDE devices connected to the IDE bus on a motherboard. The master IDE device is the main drive that controls the bus and handles data transfers, while the slave IDE device is a secondary drive that operates under the control of the master device. Each IDE channel can have one master and one slave device connected to it.
Which of the two drives should be the master the CD drive or the hard drive?
There is no requirement that one or the other is the Master or Slave, as long as one of them is (if they are on the same cable.)
How can you change the master HD with the slave one in your dell PC?
Go the website of the company that manufactured your drives. Find the correct jumper settings and set the jumper for the one you want as master at the master pin and plug the main IDE cable into it. if you want to run the other as slave, find the correct jumper setting for slave, then plug the second IDE cable into it.
When you install a SCSI drive should it be set to a master or to slave?
Master and slave does not apply to scsi drives
