4 Ergebnisse für: bios's
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The Master Boot Record (MBR) and What it Does
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/master_boot_record.htm
The MBR is the sector at cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1 of a hard disk. An MBR is created by the FDISK program. The FDISK program of all operating systems must create a functionally similar MBR. The MBR is first of what could be many partition sectors, each…
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Hard Drive Size Limitations and Barriers, The Basics
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/drive_size_barrier_limitations.htm
There's nothing more frustrating than trying to add a new hard drive only to be confronted by the inability to use it's entire capacity. This inability to use the entire drive capacity is referred to as a Limitation or Barrier, but bear in mind though that…
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Drive Size Limitations and Barriers, The Basics (2)
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/drive_size_barrier_limitations_2.htm
Now that we have reviewed some of the background that has led to the first drive size limitation, let's take a look at the individual drive size barriers and limitations beginning with the 528MB barrier. This is good place to start as we will review the…
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Digital Research Source Code
http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html
Source codes of Digital Research Software Products, including CP/M Operating Systems