CSC 225: Computer Hardware

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Module 6 Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 8.

1. Data cables usually have a colored stripe on one edge, what is it for?
2. What track does a hard drive write to first?
3. The process whereby tracks and sectors are written to a hard drive is called:
4. All sectors are ______ bytes.
5. If a mother board has two IDE channels, how many IDE devices can it support?
6. Identify the two types of SATA cables.
7. Identify the two methods a hard drive can use to transfer data to memory.
8. A PC has two hard drives on the same IDE channel. One is an ATA/66 and the other is ATA/100. What speeds will the two hard drives run at?
9. How are many parallel hard drives normally configured to be a Master or Slave device?
10. Besides IDE, what are other hard drive interface standards?

Know the following terms:

• Active Partition
• Cluster
• Extended Partition
• FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
• High-level Formatting
• IDE/EIDE
• Low-level Formatting
• MBR/MBS
• Parallel ATA
• Primary Partition
• Sector
• Serial ATA
• Zone Bit Recording

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