A disk controller is a controller circuit that enables a CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides...

A disk array controller is a device that manages the physical disk drives and presents them to the computer as logical units. It often implements hardware...

A floppy-disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It has...

A forensic disk controller or hardware write-block device is a specialized type of computer hard disk controller made for the purpose of gaining read-only...

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storage interface controller on CPU or chipset, the flash memory controller on solid state drive, or the disk controller on hard disk drive. In history...

(equivalent to $2,870 in 2024) including the controller card (which can control up to two drives) and cable. The Disk II was designed specifically for use with...

the series concluding in June 1987. In October and November 1987, a disk controller card was also published as "Project 1617". Over the next decade, about...

devices include ESCON and newer FICON. Disk array controller Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Host controller interface for USB and FireWire host adapter...

communications controller chip Peripheral DMA controller Disk controller Floppy disk controller Disk array controller, also known as a RAID controller, a type...

slow I/O data transfer. Many hardware systems use DMA, including disk drive controllers, graphics cards, network cards and sound cards. DMA is also used...

second drive (without controller) retailed for $495. The Disk II single-sided floppy drive used 5.25-inch floppy disks; double-sided disks could be used, one...

standard dual-function floppy disk controller and hard disk controller card for the IBM PC AT; the fixed disk controller on this card implemented the register...

disk - 1), because early hard drives didn't come with an embedded disk controller, that would hide the physical layout. A separate generic controller...

Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card for Apple IIe and IIGS computers so they too could use 1.40 MB storage and read/write MS-DOS. The controller card as well...

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...

The FD1771, sometimes WD1771, is a floppy disk controller chip, the first in a line of floppy disk controllers produced by Western Digital. It uses single...

wear or flash controller error may also cause bad sectors. Bad sectors may be detected by the operating system or the disk controller. Most file systems...

different technology) Custom controller with unique track layout.[1] 16 sector filesystems require a compatible disk controller (PROM update) and Apple DOS...

Keller, from MOS Technology, is the interrupt controller, but also includes logic for audio playback, floppy disk drive control, serial port input/output and...

memory. Separate disk caching is provided on the hardware side, by dedicated RAM or NVRAM chips located either in the disk controller (in which case the...

only one floppy disk drive can be connected. Floppy disk controller Floppy drive power connector Mueller, Scott (2006-03-24). "Floppy Disk Drives, Past and...

products, especially their hard disk controller ICs. A major customer of Xebec was IBM, who used their disk controllers extensively in the PC XT in 1983...

consisted of an 8-bit and a 16-bit microprocessor and a Winchester disk controller. It was intended as a universal programming and development system...

controller (due to electrical changes with the interface), but the disks in practice only support the MFS file system. Although a 400-kilobyte disk may...

differed from a Z-2 by having one or two Wangco 5¼" disk drives, a disk power supply and a 4FDC disk controller in a Z-2 chassis. The Z-2D was available in assembled...

The Family Computer Disk System, commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer (Famicom) home video game...

RAID (/reɪd/; redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines...

redesigned 5-volt disk controller was introduced with its own new Disk BASIC ROM (v1.1). It adds a new command, DOS, to auto-boot software from disk (this requires...

unusual in that it used dual Z80 CPUs, the second being used as a disk controller. In 1981, it sold with 64K of RAM for $2649 ($9368 in 2025 USD) and...