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| 80-Conductor IDE Cable | An IDE cable that has
40 pins but uses 80 wires, 40 of which are
ground wires designed to reduce crosstalk on the
cable. The cable is used by ATA/66 and higher
IDE drives.
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| ANSI (American National Standards Institute) | A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating
trade and communications standards.
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| ATAPI (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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| Autodetection | A feature of system BIOS and hard
drives that automatically identifies and configures
a new drive in BIOS setup.
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| Block Mode | A method of data transfer between hard
drive and memory that allows multiple data
transfers on a single software interrupt.
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| Boot Record | 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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| Boot Sector | 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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| Cluster | 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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| DMA (Direct Memory Access) Transfer Mode | A
transfer mode used by devices, including the hard
drive, to transfer data to memory without
involving the CPU.
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| EIDE (Enhanced IDE) | 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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| External SATA (eSATA) | A standard for external drives
based on SATA that uses a special external
shielded SATA cable up to 2 meters long. eSATA is
up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.
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| FAT12 | The 12-bit wide, one-column file allocation
table for a floppy disk, containing information
about how each cluster or file allocation unit on
the disk is currently used.
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| File Allocation Unit | See cluster.
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| Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) | A drive that can hold either
a 5 inch or 3 inch floppy disk. Also called floppy
drive.
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| Hard Drive Controller | The main secondary storage device of a
PC. Two technologies are currently used by hard
drives: magnetic and solid state. Also called a hard
disk drive (HDD).
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| Head | The top or bottom surface of one platter on a
hard drive. Each platter has two heads.
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| High-Level Formatting | Formatting performed by the
Windows Format program (for example,
FORMAT C:/S), the Windows installation
program, or the Disk Management utility.
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| Host Adapter | The circuit board that controls a SCSI
bus supporting as many as seven or fifteen separate
devices. The host adapter controls communication
between the SCSI bus and the PC.
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| IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) | A hard drive whose disk controller
is integrated into the drive, eliminating the need
for a controller cable and thus increasing speed, as
well as reducing price. See also EIDE.
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