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Are 504 MB and 528 KB the same?
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Yes - seems different because of notation
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What are the steps to configure a hard drive?
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1) Bios needs to be configured to recognize drive (older drives need a manual entry, newer drives use auto detect)
2) Create partitions 3) Format Partition with Fat32 or NTFS |
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what 3 types of partitions can be created?
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Operating system
data file program file |
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What two types of partiton are there?
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Primary and extended
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what are the choices for configuring a partition?
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Fat 16 - not efficient/all windows support/supports 2b
Fat 32- More efficient/ 95 OS/ 32 GB/not supported by NT Both of these offer no security NTFS - File and folder security/ small clusters/ |
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What are the commands for running FDISK?
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Type FDSK at cmd prompt
enable large disk suppport Y Change current disk 5 Display info 4 no partition defined create partition 1 use max avail size n 1024 enter create partition 510 enter display partition |
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How many primary and extended drives can you have per partition?
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One primary and one extended per drive
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what are the choices for configuring a partition?
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Fat 16 - not efficient/all windows support/supports 2b
Fat 32- More efficient/ 95 OS/ 32 GB/not supported by NT Both of these offer no security NTFS - File and folder security/ small clusters/ |
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what are the choices for configuring a partition?
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Fat 16 - not efficient/all windows support/supports 2b
Fat 32- More efficient/ 95 OS/ 32 GB/not supported by NT Both of these offer no security NTFS - File and folder security/ small clusters/ |
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What is the order that drive assignments are given out for primary master/secondary master/primary slave/secondary slave?
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Primary IDE Secondary IDE
Primary Master C Secondary Master D Primary Slave E Secondary Slave F |
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How do you format a new drive?
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Right click drive letter and click format drive - full format
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How many MBS does CHS support?
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504
The BIOS must be upgraded to support larger drives |
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With Fat 16 Can you upgrade?
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Yes to FAT32 or NTFS to support larger drives
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How many GB does LBA support?
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8.4 GB
Upgrade BIOS to support LBA |
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What do you do if BIOS does not support autodetection in CMOS?
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manually enter it according to the manufacturer in the BIOS
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What does RAID stand for and what are the two types of RAID configs?
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Redundant array of Inexpensive Disks
ensures fault tolerance provided by hardware or software Win2k server provides disk mirroring RAID 1 - one disk is copied directly to other RAID 5 disk striping with parity (3 drives 1st two hold info 3rd holds parity) can recover as long as one of the first two disks is in tact |
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What is the difference between basic disk and dynamic disk?
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Basic supports 4 primary or 3 primary and one extended
Dynamic organizes hard disk into volumes and allows advanced features. Is the only place to add additional RAID 1 or 5 disk |
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When does head crash occur?
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when read write head makes physical contact with platter
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what is a basic unit of storage?
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cluster
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LBA and CHS support what size hard disk?
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larger than 504 MB
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What is stored on track 0 sector 1 of a hard disk?
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Master boot record
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What are the three types of Hard Drive Interfaces?
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IDE, SCI and PC Card hard drives
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IDE is also know at ATA. How many MB and what transfer rate is supported?
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504 MB
3.3 mbs transfer rate |
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How many pins does IDE cable have?
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40
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Enhanced IDE and ATA-2 and Fast ATA are the same. What is the MB is supports and what transfer rater?
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LBA
11.1 mbs transfer support for cdrom |
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Ultra DMA supports what data transder rate?
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33.3 Mbps
Direct memory access |
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Utlra ATA supports what transfer rate?
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66.6 MBps
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Which is more flexble SCSI or IDE?
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SCSI
Better transer rate 50 pin connector 68 pin and 80 pin connector 7 or 15 devices can be daisy chained each device must have unique number |
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In a daisy chain how many terminators are needed?
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2, one on each end
first device labeled 0 , second 1 |
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SCSI host adapter is assigne which device number?
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7
0-7 have highest priority then 8-15, 7 is always the highest |
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In binary 0 is what and 1 is what?
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0 is off and 1 is on
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Does USB support SCSI devices?
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NO
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DB25 are what kind of connections?
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printer
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3 types of PC cards
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Type 1 Type 2 Type 3
3.3 mm 5mm 10.5mm memory modem harddrive Type 2 and 3 support hard drives |
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Internal Narrow SCSI has how many pins
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50
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command to dial modem
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ATD
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When working on CRT never:
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use a grounding strap
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During the writing process of printing what happens
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the print image is written to the drum
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What does the maintanence area of the drum do
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lets ink dry
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if the refresh rate is too high, how do you fix?
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boot in safe mode
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A modem converts
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analog to digital
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what doesn't contain a universal asynchronoug receiver/transmitter
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an external modem
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AT class has how many DMA Channels?
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7
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What uses IRQ1
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keyboard controller
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What are the two types of serial bus architecture
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usb and firewire
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What needs to happen before a PC card will work?
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Socket service and card services need to be enabled
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What can't be configured in CMOS
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a drive letter
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Which is more expensive Static ram (SRAM) or dynamic ram(DRAM)?
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static and doesn't have to be refreshed as much
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SRAM has how many pins
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168
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What slots support Single Edge cartridges
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Slot A and Slot 1
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What does the command ATZ do?
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Reverts modem to factory settings?
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What does the ATZ1 command do?
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Resets factory settings to user defined state
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What does the AT command do?
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Shows modem state
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What does the ATZ1 command do?
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Resets factory settings to user defined state
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What does command ATH do
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Hangs up modem
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What happens when you refresh memory
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maintain electric charge on DRAM
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Computer clock is losing time. what should you do?
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Test the voltage
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