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Handling CD Read Errors - ...lled "Q" parity, which then is added to the 24 data bytes. The resulting 28 bytes are then run though another encoder that uses a different scheme...
Floppy Drive Types - ...ed, Double-Density(DSDD) was the standard FDD in PC-class systems, and was often found as a second FDD in early AT and 386 systems. The...
How to choose a Tape Backup Drive - ...s and perhaps even back up the workstations from the server. As you ponder which backup tape drive you should select, consider the following facto...
DVD Copy Protection - ...or other software application distributed on DVD-ROM discs.
Note that every one of these protection systems has been broken, so with a lit...
How to Manually Resolve Motherboard Conflicts - ...ions to enable them to be configured manually, this feature was found primarily on ISA PnP-compatible cards.
Be sure you write down or print o...
Hard Drive Advancements - ...big a drive you get, you will find a way to fill it. I know that I have lived by that dictum since purchasing my first hard disk drive more than 2...
How Magnetic Fields Are Used to Store Data - ...>Electromagnetism was discovered in 1819 by Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted, when he found that a compass needle would deflect away from p...
Hard Disk Form Factors - ...that available drives will fit in the bay, the screw holes will line up, and the standard cables and connections will plug in. Without these indus...
Magneto Optical Drives - ...acities up to 9.1GB. 12" MO drives are also available for enterprise systems. Originally, magneto-optical drives were strictly WORM (write once, r...
Tape Drive Backup Software - ...se the following checklist to evaluate the software you plan to use with your tape backup drive:
Device support. You might pref...
Introduction in the Microdrive Technology - ...28KB cache buffer.
Since its introduction by IBM, the Microdrive in its Compact Flash Type II-compatible form factor has increased in capaci...
Flash Memory Devices - ...ile memory that is divided into blocks rather than bytes, as with normal RAM memory modules. Flash memory, which also is used in most recent compu...
Comparing Disk Tape and Flash Memory Technologies - ...ry devices, which have largely replaced the floppy disk for data transfer, emulate disk drives. Some tape drives are also capable of emulating dis...
History of Magnetic Storage - ... was able to take any computer-related courses. I have to believe that this was more a reflection on their budget and lack of focus on current tec...
General Hard Disk Features - ...SME">Capacity
As stated earlier, a corollary of Parkinson's famous "law" can be applied to hard drives: "Data expands so as to fill the spa...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Tape Backup Drives - ...ndalone computers, or network servers when high-capacity tape drives and cartridges are used. Anytime multiple tapes or disks must be used to make...
Care and Feeding of a Tape Drive - ... a good idea to clean the drive immediately after first using a new tape. Depending on how you use your drive and how clean your environment is, e...
Handling DVD Errors - ...inner (row) bits are added to detect and correct errors. The scheme is simple and yet very effective. The information from the data frames is firs...
How CD ROM drive works - ...The servo motor, on command from the microprocessor, positions the beam onto the correct track on the CD-ROM by moving the reflecting mirror....
Things to consider when choosing a CD ROM Drive - ...most applications, DTR is the most important performance characteristic of a CD-ROM drive. DTR is most important if you use the drive mainly for s...
CD ROM Sector Information and Capacity - ...dding="5" cellSpacing="0">
CD-ROM Sector Information and Capacity
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Advantages of NTFS file system - ...ile and folder permissions Using NTFS permissions you can control access to every file on an NTFS volume. You can configure permissions at eac...
Cartridge Based Removable Hard Disk Drives - ...bility of cheap, huge, fast hard disks and such technologies as CD writers and DVD writers has killed the demand for cartridge-based removable har...
Disks Partitions and Volumes - ...e assigned drive letters directly by the operating system and are also called volumes, and volumes are also called logical drives. Think of the pa...
Tips on choosing a Tape Drive - ...p) or that it has suddenly become very expensive to use (because you must buy twice as many tapes). In such a case, the only alternative to replac...
Tips on choosing a high capacity FDD - ...sewhere. Zip Drives are by far the most commonly used superfloppy, so installing one allows you to exchange data with more people. In theory, the ...
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Subcodes (08/08/2006)
... The Q subcode contains a multitude of information, including Whether the sector data is audio (CD-DA) or data (CD-ROM)...
... The Q subcode contains a multitude of information, including Whether the sector data is audio (CD-DA) or data (CD-ROM)...
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