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What is a slave optical drive?
Well an optical drive is a cd/dvd disk drive. Slave means it is in the secondary position on an IDE cable. So a slave optical drive is a cd/dvd drive positioned secondary to a different device on a singular IDE cable.
What are three types of ribbon cables you might find inside a PC?
3 types of ribbon cables found in a PC are, a 34-pin floppy drive cable with twist, a 40-pin IDE cable with 40 wires, and a 40-pin IDE cable with 80 fine wires(80 conductor cable)A floppy drive cable, an IDE cable, and a CD or DVD drive cable
How can you get a DVD drive -for PC-DVDs- without getting a new computer?
buy a DVD drive and swap the one you have for the new one. make sure you buy the correct interface, IDE ATA or SATA. Best way to check is the opent he computer and look at the data cable going into the Cd drive, a flat ribbon like cable is IDE ATA, a slender cable is SATA, I highly doubt any computer with a CD drive would be SATA. Go with an IDE ATA DVD drive.
Full meaning of IDE cable?
integrated drive electronics is the Full form of the IDE cable.
How may drivers can be installed in a standard IDE cable?
2 drives per ide cable
Older hard drives use what kind of conductor IDE conductor ribbon cable?
The correct answer is....80-conductor IDE ribbon cable.
What is the full form of ide cable?
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
How many drives must be set to master in a PC with 2 IDE drives on same cable?
if it is DVD or CDROM both,otherewise only one
What is an IDE port?
a port for the IDE cable to connect the hardrive and cddrive to the motherboard.
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)
Where can one purchase an IDE cable?
One can purchase an IDE cable at many different stores. There are stores such as Radio Shack and Best Buy that have many different cables, including IDE cables.
What type of IDE cable do most hard drives use today?
SATA IDE cable do most hard drives use toda.
