Friday 3 April 2009

Hardware Configuration


IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment; this is basically a software application which provides wide-ranging facilities to computer programmers for a software progress.
An IDE normally consists of source code editor, compiler and sometimes a interpreter tools.


How IDE communicates with the computer?
The IDE communicates with the computer through the motherboard; all new motherboards are made with IDE connectors.


A 40-pin ribbon cable is connected to the hard disk drive to the host adapter on the motherboard. A connector at one end which is usually labelled blue, this is connected to the hard drives, the grey connector attaches to the slave device, while the black connector attaches to the primary master drive. Each cable contains wires, which are laid side by side, each wire, called pins is responsible for a particular functions.

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