A slave may refer to any of the following:
A slave is a computer or peripheral device that operates under the control of another computer peripheral.
A slave setting found on a hard drive or CD drive, and adjusted using jumpers, as shown below. The slave setting sets a drive as secondary and allows for two devices to be attached to a single IDE/ATAPI connection.
Because “master/slave” is offensive, it’s better to use “device0/device1,” “primary/secondary,” “leader/follower,” or “primary/replica” in its place.
Today, the secondary setting has been replaced by cable select, which determines the drive by where it’s connected on the IDE cable.
Cable select, CD terms, DSP, Hard drive terms, Master, PK
Because “slave” is offensive, it’s better to refer to this drive as “secondary” or “device1.”
Related information
- CD-ROM help and support.
- Hard drive help and support.
