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Master and Slave configuration is necessary for motherboard in order to choose right disk to boot from.
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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
When using an 80-conductor cable-select cable the drive nearest the motherboard is the?
Answer: When using an 80-conductor cable-select cable, the drive nearest the motherboard is the master, and the drive farthest from the motherboard is the slave. You can recognize a cable-select cable by a small hole somewhere in the the data cable or by labels (master or slave) on the connectors. -CompTIA A+ Guide to Hardware, Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting Fifth Edition 2010 copyright - Jean Andrews, Ph.D.
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.
How do you transfer programs from your main drive to your slave drive?
Some programs can just be copied from one drive to the other. However, most programs will not work this way. You will probably have to uninstall the program from your master drive and then install it on your slave drive using the program's installation disk.
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
What do you use to configure a drive to be a master slave or a stand alone drive?
We generally use the jumpers to set the disk drives as master or slave.
How can one install a combo drive?
This computer technology works on 'master and slave' technology. in this two similar type of devices can be attached to the same data port on the motherboard. In order to install a combo drive there are two possible conditions:-1. you already have a CD-ROM,CD-rw etc.2. this is your first drive. if you already have drive then plug the data cable of combo drive into the previous drive and then plug the power cable of combo drive drive into power supply of system . then turn on the system combo drive will appear as the slave of previous drive . The combo drive is ready to use. (In case of an OS other than win- xp, you are supposed to install a driver). If this is your first drive then plug the data cable of combo drive on the motherboard and plug the power supply and turn on the system drive will appear (in case of OS other than win- xp, you are supposed to insall a driver).
When installing a hard drive and a CD-ROM drive on the same IDE channel which do you configure as the master and which as the slave?
Configure the hard drive as the master and the CD-ROM as the slave.
How do you install Windows 98 on to a slave drive hard disk D in a 2 hard disk system that already has Windows XP. I want to install Windows 98 on to the slave drive D .?
if u have winxp on the master hd, just boot ur computer from a 98boot disk and install win98 on the slave. the computer should automatically configure itself for dual boot.
When installing a hard drive and a DVD writer on the same IDE channel which do you configure as the master and which as a slave?
Hard drive as master and DVD writer as slave.
How you can make slave or master hard drive?
There are jumpers on the drive itself that can be configured to set it up as a master or a slave. Refer to your hard drive's documentation for the pins to use for these configurations.
What does a slave drive do?
On the older style ATA drives, now called PATA or simply IDE, each drive chain had two positions for drives. One was called the Master, and the other the Slave drive. The drives performed in exactly the same manner, and the only difference most people would notice was that the Master drive was given a drive letter before the slave drive. In short, a Slave drive does everything a Master drive does.
