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| File Allocation Table | What does FAT stand for? |
| 512 | How many bytes are located in each sector? |
| track | The geometry on a disk that goes around in a concentric circle is called what? |
| sector | Cutting the disk into pie-shaped pieces creates the smallest section called what? |
| 1.44 MB | A DSHD ( Double sided High Density) disk has 80 tracks per side and 18 sectors per track. What is the size of this drive? You must show your math in the right hand margin. |
| 1 | The colored stripe on the ribbon cable specifics pin # what? |
| A | The floppy ribbon connector, traveling from the MB, after the twist, will be drive letter what? |
| mylar | Floppy disks are made from what material? |
| formatted | Floppies do NOT need to be partitioned, but do need to be what by the user to match the OS. |
| motherboard | The colored stripe on the ribbon cable should be matched to the specific pin # at the FDD and at the what connection. |
| jump drives or CDs | The use of floppies have gradually been switched to using what to store data due to larger files. |
| True | True or False: Floppies are often used to flash BIOS. |
| 2 | How many hard drives can be installed on a single IDE cable? |
| master: slave | If a cable has two IDE devices connected to it, one must be set, by setting jumpers, as a what and the other device must be set as a what. |
| Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics | What does EIDE stand for? |
| Small Computer System Interface | What does SCSI stand for? |
| 4 | How many EDIE drives can you have in a standard computer? |
| 3 Partition, 2 High-level format, 1 Low-level format | Which occurs first with a hard drive? Pace a number in the correct order. |
| 1 | The colored wire on a ribbon cable specifies pin # what? |
| 40 or 80 | IDE cables are 40 pins, but can be either ____ wire or ____ wire depending if they are using the ATA/100 standard. |
| magnetic | Hard drive surfaces stores the data on rotating platters with a surface coated to be what? |
| cylinder | The tracks stacked on top of one another form a what? |
| actuator | An _______ arm moves the read/write head on an arc as the motor spins the platter. |
| a few nanometers | The R/W head files on a cushion of air how far above the disk surface? |
| Revolutions Per Minute | What does RPM stand for? |
| 1024 | 1KB=_____ bytes |
| 0,000 RPM | A typical RPM speed for a PC hard drive bought today would be what? |
| SCSI | There are two types of hard drive interfaces, EIDE and what? |
| Compact Disc Read Only Memory: Compact Disc Read Only Media | CD-ROM could stand for two different things. Write out each. |
| spiral track | A CD disc does not have round tracks, they have a ______? |
| shiney land | A binary "0" on a disc is a ________? |
| pit in the disc | A binary "1" on a disc is a ________? |
| 650-700 MB | CD-ROMs can hold up to ________ of data. |
| Compact Disc Recordable | What does CD-R stand for? |
| Compact Disc Rewritable | What does CD-RW stand for? |
| 1500 KB | Jane has a 10*CD. What is the transfer rate? |
| Advance Technology Attachment Packet Interface | What does ATAPI stand for? |
| master:slave | EDIE CDs are connected using a 40 pin/40 wire cable, but each device must be set using jumpers as either a _________ or __________. |
| CD File System | What does CDFS stand for? |
| SCSI, SATA, FIrewire, or USB | A Cd-RW could also interface using what? |
| an organic dye | A CD-R uses ________ embedded into the disc which changes transparency. |
| non-crystalline substance | A CD-RW uses a __________ which becomes crystalline when heated by a laser. Thes discs can be reused. |
