ELE 201: Digital Electronics for Telecomm I

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Module 6 Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 8.

  1. Which parts make up the floppy drive subsystem?

  2. How many pins are in a floppy drive data cable?

  3. Data cables usually have a colored stripe on one edge, what is it for?

  4. If a PC has two floppy drives installed, which disk is A: and which one is B: by looking at the data cable?

  5. What is a cluster and how many bytes are in a floppy disk cluster?

  6. What four things are created during a floppy disk format?

  7. If a hard drive has three platters, how many heads does it have?

  8. What track does a hard drive write to first?

  9. The process whereby tracks and sectors are written to a hard drive is called:

  10. All sectors are ______ bytes.

  11. Briefly describe LBA Mode.

  12. Identify the most popular hard drive interface standard.

  13. According to table 8-1, which standard was the first to require the 80-conductor cable?

  14. If a mother board has two IDE channels, how many IDE devices can it support?

  15. Briefly describe the differences between 40 and 80-conductor IDE cables.

  16. Identify the two types of SATA cables.

  17. Identify the two methods a hard drive can use to transfer data to memory.

  18. 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?

  19. How are many hard drives normally configured to be a Master or Slave device?

  20. Besides IDE, what are other hard drive interface standards?

Know the following terms:

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