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A+ Study Guide: CMOS

Hard Drive (Cont…)
  1. Size
    Determines the capacity of the drive.

  2. CHS values
    Where 'C' is Cylinder which is the cylindrical surface formed by identical track numbers on vertically stacked discs.

    'H' stands for Head. The head is the device which rolls across the platters in a hard disk and either lays down information (in write mode) or reads it (in read mode).

    And finally 'S' is Sectors, which are divisions on a hard drive used for storing digital information: a single sector is the smallest contiguous unit of information; multiple sectors make up a track. Not able to get any better image

  3. Landing Zone
    It specifies the cylinder to which the BIOS should send the heads of the hard disk when the machine is to be turned off. It is here that the heads will “land” after they finish their operation of either reading or writing.

  4. Boot Sector Virus protection
    This option when enabled gets the computer to make a beep sound each time a write operation is requested on the boot sector of the hard disk.

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