Computer Hardware for Mr. Carboni's Computer Class
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| Whats an 80-conductor IDE Cable? Hint: IDE = Integrated Drive/Device Electronics | A Hard drive who's controller is intigrated into the drive. And makes it so no controller is needed and increases speed.
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| What does ANSI do? Hint: American National Standards Institute | A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating
trade and communications standards.
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| What does ATAPI do? Hint: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface | An interface standard, part of the
IDE/ATA standards, that allows tape drives,
optical drives, and other drives to be treated like
an IDE hard drive by the system.
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| What does Autodetection do with the BIOS and hard drives? | A feature of system BIOS and hard
drives that automatically identifies and configures
a new drive in BIOS setup.
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| What does Block Mode do with the memory data? | A method of data transfer between hard
drive and memory that allows multiple data
transfers on a single software interrupt.
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| What does a boot record use a floppy disk for? | The first sector of a floppy disk or hard
drive volume; it contains information about the
disk or volume. On a hard drive, if the boot record
is in the active partition, then it can be used to
boot the OS. Also called boot sector.
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| What does a Cluster do on a disk drive? | One or more sectors that constitute the
smallest unit of space on a disk for storing data
(also referred to as a file allocation unit). Files are
written to a disk as groups of whole clusters.
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| Whats DMA transfer mode do? Hint: direct memory access | A
transfer mode used by devices, including the hard
drive, to transfer data to memory without
involving the CPU.
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| What does EIDE (Enhanced IDE) have to do with memory? | A standard for managing the
interface between secondary storage devices and a
computer system. A system can support up to four
parallel ATA IDE devices such as hard drives,
CD-ROM drives, and DVD drives.
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