Hardware Inter-Connectivity

Device Driver

Drivers.

In our daily life, to listen music just turn the power on, put a cassette & listen music.

But in Computer System, it is not easy, since computer is multi-task machine and each hardware device is designed to execute special task & give the desired result i.e. printer to print & give hardcopy of result, CD-Drive, Hard-Disk Drive and Floppy Disk Drive to store data, Modem to communicate etc.

But each hardware device talks in different language.

To facilitate their communication with motherboard, software program called Driver loaded as a translator between motherboard & hardware device to communicate with each other.

Each hardware device has its own driver. To add new hardware to the motherboard, it is important to load its driver.

Sometimes OS contains driver of new hardware, but sometimes it has to load from CD-ROM, Floppy Disk Drive etc. This process called the installation of Device Driver.

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