chapter 8 part 3
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| low level formatting | A process (usually performed at
the factory) that electronically creates the hard
drive tracks and sectors and tests for bad spots on
the disk surface.
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| operating system formatting | Formatting performed by the
Windows Format program
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| parallel ATA | An older IDE cabling method that
uses a 40-pin flat or round data cable or an 80-
conductor cable and a 40-pin IDE connector. See also
serial ATA.
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| PIO | A transfer
mode that uses the CPU to transfer data from the
hard drive to memory. PIO mode is slower than
DMA mode.
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| read/write head | A sealed, magnetic coil device that
moves across the surface of a disk either reading
data from or writing data to the disk.
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| SCSI ID | A number from 0 to 15 assigned to each SCSI
device attached to the daisy chain.
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| serial ATA | An ATAPI cabling method that
uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the
80-conductor cable. See also parallel ATA.
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| serial ATA cable | An IDE cable that is narrower and
has fewer pins than the parallel IDE 80-conductor
cable.
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| terminating resistor | The resistor added at the end of
a SCSI chain to dampen the voltage at the end of
the chain.
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| zone bit recording | used by disk drives to store more sectors per track on outer tracks than on inner tracks. It is also called Zone Constant Angular Velocity (Zone CAV or Z-CAV or ZCAV).
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