Slaving a hard drive or CD/Rom drive is the old school way of saying that you are going to connect a drive under another. An example of this would be using an IDE ribbon cable connecting the first connector to a "primary" drive then the second connector to the "secondary or slave" drive. Often there are jumper settings that must be set correctly on the drives. Slaving is useful for adding secondary storage space or organization purposes. Most common interface used for slaving is IDE. (Return to FAQ page)
