Bill Kuhar ch 8 comp Word Scramble
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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. |
ANSI | A nonprofit organization dedicated to creating trade and communications standards. |
ATAPI | 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. |
autodetection | A feature of system BIOS and hard drives that automatically identifies and configures a new drive in BIOS setup. |
block mode | A method of data transfer between hard drive and memory that allows multiple data transfers on a single software interrupt. |
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. |
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 record. |
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. |
DMA | A transfer mode used by devices, including the hard drive, to transfer data to memory without involving the CPU. |
EIDE | 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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