| A | B |
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| IDE | technology in which the hard drive controller is permanently attached to the hard drive and controls where data is physically stored on the drive. |
| SCSI | is another type of hard drive technology that uses a SCSI bus that can be connected to the other SCSI devices. |
| PC | must boot from an operating system stored on a secondary storage device, called the bootable device. |
| Boot priority | or boot sequence is determined in CMOS setup and is the order that the system BIOS uses to attempt to boot from a bootable secondary storage device. |
| SCSI hard drive | cannot be the botable device unless this feature is supported by system BIOS. |
| External removable drives | Lomega zip drives, lomega jaz drives, imation superdisk, tape backup drives, written CD-rom drives (CD-R), and rewriteable CD-rom drives (CD-RW). |
| Imation superdisk | can use a floppy disk or a 120 MB disk. |
| ATAPI standards | have to do with the interface protocol between the deice and the CPU, which must be supported by th OS. |
