There are jumpers on the drives that differentiate the master from the slave. If the jumpers aren't set correctly, the BIOS will not recognize them. In addition, some IDE ribbon cables are also labled Drive 0 (or Master) and Drive 1 (or Slave). If the jumpers are set correct, but the drives are plugged into the ribbon cable incorrectly, the computer will not recognize the drives.
Only one master is connected to single IDE cable
When connecting to IDE drives (whether they be hard disk drives or optical drives) on the same cable, the computer needs to be able to tell them apart. When using a 40 wire IDE cable, you have to identify one drive as Master and the other as Slave. You do this by positioning the jumpers on the end of the drive according to the diagram on the drive itself. When using an 80 wire cable, set the jumpers on both drives to the 'cable select' position and their Master and Slave classifications will be determined by their position on the cable.
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Yes. They are the same.
You can watch your cable services that you get on your computer with this type of cord. You can watch it on a television and a computer at the same time.
if it is DVD or CDROM both,otherewise only one
Since modern computers don't use IDE cables anymore, this question is basically obsolete. There is no such thing as two drives on the same SATA cable. That being said, such drives will have jumpers in the back, and they will be marked. With two drives on the same cable, either one needs to be set as master and the other as slave, or else both need to be set to "cable select", in which case the bios will decide for itself how to give priority to them.
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
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)
Two things: First if you have two CD drives on the same cable one has to be "master" and the other "slave". It doesn't matter which. Second, you need to make sure BIOS is set up properly, you may need to have the BIOS auto-detect the drives. THere are several BIOS manufacturers and you need to look through the book that came with the computer to figure out what you want your CD to do, (boot from CD?)
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