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It's possible to have two mass storage devices on a single IDE cable. The first device will have it's jumpers set to "Master" and the second device will be set to "Slave". That is only a way FOR THE HARDWARE to differentiate between the two drives.
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What is slave unit?
A slave unit is normally a unit controlled my another unit on a network, or that does the same thing as another unit. For example if you have two harddrives in your computer on will be the master and the other one is called the slave unit
What is the relation between the user and computer?
Well, the the user does not directly control the hardware, unless they are a technician or something similar. The computer's operating system, IE, Windows 7, have a thing called a kernel, which communicates with the hardware and gives it specific directions. You have your hard drive, which holds all the files for long term storage, and the data is moved into the Random Access Memory, or RAM, for short term use. When the kernel needs information from the RAM, it moves that data into the CPU, where it is displayed on the monitor, so the user never directly has to control hardware. It is a very roundabout process.
An IDE cable has both a master and a slave connection?
yes
What is the difference between a master bus and a slave bus?
none
What are the advantages of master slave multiprocessing?
The importance of having a master and a slave drive during processing is so that there is no mix up when programs are trying to identify the partition table. Instances of accidental data loss are reduced.
What is the meaning of Master-slave communication protocol?
A master-slave communication protocol allows hardware components to communicate between them. A component is either a master or a slave. A master initiates the communication and sends requests. A slave only receives the requests, acknoledges, threats and sends a response. A slave cannot initiates a communication.
What is biased exponent in terms of computer terminology?
on any drives in a computer you have a slave and master
What are the slave hard drive?
If you add an additional HD to your computer, the second drive becomes the slave drive because the computer must boot from the Master drive
When two drives connect to the same data cable how does bios know which is the master and slave?
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
What is polling?
ANSWER I assume you mean polling, where a master device requests the status of a slave device. Another option for a design would be to have the slave device alert the master device when its status has changed. In either case, the master device can then act on the slave's status change. For example, if a computer polls its keyboard, it reads the status at an interval that allows it to detect a keypress. For the other approach, the keyboard has a controller that samples the keyboard (usually much more frequently than the master computer would be polling) and transmits a key code to the main computer.
What is the purpose of slave hard-drive?
IDE hard drives have the bulk of their controlling hardware built into the hard disk itself, in order for two drives to share an IDE channel, one must be set for master and the other set for slave. This is done so they do not interfere with each other when transferring data to/from the rest of the computer.
Was William Wells Brown a slave master?
No, he was a slave who escaped from his master.
I can't access a user account in win xp on the slave hard drive there is no password on this account and I can access the others whats happening?
By default the computer boots the XP installation on the Master hard disk. If you need to access the slave system change slave to master.
When was Internet Slave Master created?
Internet Slave Master was created in 2001.
How do you know if it is the clutch master cylinder or the slave cylinder that has gone bad on an 94 firebird?
clamp the line to the slave cylinder and mash the clutch pedal. if the pedal gets hard to push,the slave is bad. if the clutch pedal goes down slowly with moderate pressure,the master cyl is bad clamp the line going to the slave cylinder. meant to say that in the previous answer
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.
Your computer has 3 hard drives how can you utilize the other two?
START SETTINGS HARDWARE. That is for win vista but really window will try to install any new hardware as power is applied. GO to my computer and see if all drives are installed. I HATE to think that you may have to get to the BIOS LEVEL. That is good basically but there is always a BUT it will work only if one drive C: is the master and the others are designated as slaves otherwise there is a boot up conflict. In the back or somewhere there are jumpers to be moved to make one slave or master. I hope you have SATA.
