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What is the master/slave hard drive concept?

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Question added by abdur rasheed , Network Administrator , Warid Telecom (Al-Khalej Telecom)
Date Posted: 2013/08/03
Mohammed Yaseen MBA  PMP®
by Mohammed Yaseen MBA PMP® , Commercial Officer , Hayat Communications

On IDE drives, optical and HDD, they all have three settings, Master, Slave and Cable Select. Master drives are the primary drive for that particular IDE Channel and have the priority when accessing the southbridge. If you use cable select then whichever drive is on the top/ last IDE connector on the40pin/80wire cable is master and the one in the middle is slave.

If you have a HDD as Master on IDE Channel0 then this would be the first choice for Windows when installing. If you have a HDD as slave and an optical drive as master on this channel, Windows again will select the HDD. So in the end in this case it doesn't reallly matter

 

ahmed alqarem
by ahmed alqarem , Executive Assistant , شركة توليد الكهرباء المركزية ( cegco )

المتحكم بكون الهارد ديسك سليف او ماستر هم جمبر على الهارد ديسك يكون في الخلف حيث انه في حالة الماستر يكون البوت منه و الدخول الى النظام اما في حالة السليف او العبد يكون البوت من اي جهاز اخر موصول قبل الهارد ديسك يحتوي معلومات النظام

TWO HDD OR TWO CD,DVD ROM DRIVE'S CONNECTED IN ONE ID CABLE WE USED MASTER AND SLAVE CONCEPT.

ahmed mokhtar
by ahmed mokhtar , باحث فنى تنمية ادارية , وزارة الاستثمار

هى عملية ترتيب للهارهد من حيث عملية البوت للنظام التشغيل ويمكن تغير هذا الترتيب يدويا او اختيار الماستر اوالسليف من الوحدة الام او تركيب جامبر للهارد فى وضعية الماستر او السليف 

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