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Which type of adapter card connects disk drives?
A Disk controller.
What is the advantage of using a disk controller to control the hard disk?
The use of a separate disk controller frees the CPU to perform other tasks. In particular, the disk controller can manage DMA transfers, which otherwise would have to be done by the CPU. The disk controller also manages the movement of the disk head and reading or writing of the data on the disk. Again, without the disk controller, the CPU would be forced to perform these operations.
What is the IRQ for the floppy disk drive controller?
By default, the IRQ for the floppy disk controller is IRQ 6.
What controls the interface between the hard disk and the system bus?
disk controller
What is consists of a special purpuse chip and electronic circuits that control the transfer of ddata and instructions from a disk to and from the system bus and other components in the computer?
Disk controllers
What does FDC stand for in computer terms?
Floppy Disk Controller
How else could you do the job that the disk controller does?
if your refering to IDE or SATA controller mostly likely using IDE or Sata ports on the board else u could go external by USB disk controller is recognised in BIOS under an IRQ
What is the difference between disk duplexing or disk striping with parity?
Disk duplexing is where you're writing data to 2 or more disks, with each disk using its own controller. If one disk fails, the other disk continues to operate with no data loss. Even if you lose the disk controller, it is not a problem since you're using a separate controller for the other disk. It is considered an variation of RAID 1 disk mirroring. Disk striping does not duplicate data as in disk duplexing. It writes (stripes) data across 3 or more disks but uses parity checking for each disk. If one disk fails, the other drives can recreate the data stored on the failed one. It is considered RAID 5 level.
What is a FDD connector?
fdd is a floppy disk controller. this is you will hoke it up
Which interrupts are usually used for the hard disk controller?
IRQ 14
Which IRQ does the hard disk controller commonly us?
6
What term is used to descibe disk mirroring when each drive is connected to its own hard disk controller?
Drive Duplexing.
