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A floppy drive is divided into tow tracks which are divided into sectors How large is each sector?
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∙ 15y ago
about 512 bytes but when you format a disk you can change the size of each sector
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What name is given to the tracks on which tanks and bulldozers run?
Caterpillar tracks.
What could tracks tell us about dinosaur family life?
The dinasour issue has brought big dilemas between the evolutionist and the creationist. They differ in the ages they lived and many other topics. Tracks found at mt.blanco Texas clearly shows dino tracks toghether with human tracks. so as for the familiy of dinasour issue tracks could show us only figures for specultation, the mt. blanco Texas tracks tend to show that man and dinasours did coexist.
Does underground Railroad have tracks?
no
What is the size of the modern day Olympic race track?
Modern Olympic Tracks are 400m, Ancient Tracks are 440 yards
Who invented moose tracks ice cream?
John Beckwith of Hillsdale Michigan was the one who devolved Moose Tracks Ice Cream
If a floppy drive is divided into tracks which are divided into sectors How large is each sector?
512 bytes of data
What are floppy disks divided into?
Floppy disk has tracks and sectors.
A floppy drive is divided into tracks which are divided into sector how large is sector?
512 bytes
Tracks and sectors in floppy disk?
80
How many cylinder is equal to 1bytes?
It depends on how many tracks and sectors, as well as the sector size. In a typical (very old) 360kb floppy, there were 40 cylinders, 2 tracks per cylinder, 9 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector so, in that case, 1 byte would be about 1.085 x 10-4 cylinders.
Can you give examples of a sentence with the word sector in it?
Hard disks are organized into sectors, tracks, and cylinders.
What is a formatted floppy?
A floppy disk where everything on it has been removed / deleted, to clean it up for new stuff. In order to format a floppy, you need to write blank tracks onto it, each containing the necessary sectors, sector headers, and inter-sector and intra-sector gaps. This is done using a special command of the floppy controller which writes a full track at a time. You then need to write data to the floppy to provide the logical file system. In the FAT 12 file system, that consists of the boot record, the file allocation table, and the root directory. If you intend to boot from the floppy, then you need to write the rest of the boot record, and the required operating system files, usually IBMBIO.SYS, IBMDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM. If the floppy has been previously formatted, it is possible to skip the physical format part where you write the tracks - just rewrite the file allocation table and the root directory, and the system files if needed, and you will delete all of the files and directories on the floppy. Often, however, it is better to do the complete format, particularly if you are using the floppy in a different drive.
How data is retrieved from a floppy?
The floppy cover has a window with a spring loaded metal shutter. the shutter is pushed back which uncovers the window when it is inserted inti the disk drive. The drive rotates the disk inside its protective covering at a speed of 300 rmp. Read/write head contacts its exposed surface through the window.Recording is done magnetically in concentric circles called tracks. Data is read or written serially in bits on the tracks with in a given sector.Microcomputer disks use sector organization to store and retrieve data. In sector organization , the recording surface is divided into pie-shaped sectors. The number of sectors depends on the density of the disk. Each sector is assigned a unique number. The sector number and track number are all that are needed for address on a particular disk face surface. the disk address represents the physical location of a particular file or set of data. An access arm containing the read/write head is moved under program control to the appropriate track. Data are read or written when a sector containing the desired data passes under the read/write head.
What is a disk cluster?
A disk cluster is a location on a disk's surface that stores data. Most disks are divided into platters/cylinders, tracks, and sectors, and sectors are grouped into clusters when formatted with a file system.
How many tracks are on a high density floppy disk?
There are no tracks on it until you put tracks on it.
Data is written to and read from a floppy disk via a magnetic mechanism in the floppy drive?
Data written on or retrieved from a floppy:The floppy cover has a window with a spring-loaded metal shutter. The shutter is pushed back which uncovers the window when it is inserted into the disk drive. The drive rotates the disk inside its protective covering at a speed of 300 rpm. Read/write head contacts its exposed surface through the window.Recording is done magnetically in concentric circles called tracks. Data is read or written serially in bits on the tracks within a given sector.Microcomputer disks use sector organization to store and retrieve data. In sector organization, the recording surface is divided into pie-shaped sectors. The number of sectors depends on the density of the disk. Each sector is assigned a unique number. The sector number and track number are all that are needed for address on a particular disk-face surface. The disk address represents the physical location of a particular file or set of data. An access arm containing the read/write head is moved under program control to the appropriate track. Data are read or written when a sector containing the desired data passes under the read/write head.By Khushal Khan Nasar......
Is backup the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors?
No, backup is most certainly not that. Formatting is the process fo dividing the disk into tracks and Sectors.
