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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 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 difference between a master bus and a slave bus?

Well, let's think of it like a happy little family of buses. The master bus is like the big brother who controls the flow of information and commands other buses, while the slave bus listens and follows along. Each bus has its own important role to play, working together to create a beautiful harmony of communication. Just remember, every bus is valued and plays a part in the grand design of our technological landscape.

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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.


Was William Wells Brown a slave master?

No, he was a slave who escaped from his master.


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.


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.


What is a slave cycle?

A slave cycle is a synchronized data transfer process between a master device and a slave device in a computer system. It involves the master device initiating communication with the slave device to exchange data or commands in a predefined sequence. This cycle allows for the orderly and efficient transfer of information between devices.


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 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