• Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) is a hard disk drive interface designed by Maxtor Corporation in 1983 to be a follow-on to the ST-412/506 interface...
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  • (Run-Length Limited) encoding variants. Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) was an industry standard interface similar to ST412 supporting higher data...
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  • Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) SCSI Allan, Dal, ed. (1988), ISO/DIS 9318 -- Information Processing Systems -- Intelligent Peripheral Interface,...
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  • Design, at University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain Enhanced Small Disk Interface, a computer disk interface European Security and Defence Identity, a European...
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    floppy disk drives. The Big Board II added a SASI interface for hard disk drives, enhancements to system speed (4 MHz vs. 2.5 MHz) and enhancements to the...
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    floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...
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    Parallel ATA (redirect from Enhanced IDE)
    with, hard disk drives and devices that could emulate them. The introduction of ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) by a group called the Small Form Factor...
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  • conjunction with GPT, an Enhanced Disk Drive Specification (EDD) 4 Hybrid MBR proposal recommends another extension to the interface: EAX = 0x54504721 ("...
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    disk drives. Its SA800 became the industry standard for form factor and interface. In 1976, media supplier Information Terminals Corporation enhanced...
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    and 1450XLD have a PBI interface. The Enhanced Cartridge Interface, or ECI, is a modified version of the PBI designed to be smaller and less expensive to...
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    of Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI) specification, which IBM used extensively in the PS/2 range and which was faster than the ST-506 interface of...
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  • magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive...
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    released in 1983, featured a document-centric graphical interface atop an advanced hard disk based OS that featured such things as preemptive multitasking...
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  • Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) (/aɪˈskʌzi/ eye-SKUZ-ee) is an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage...
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    Microdrive format, later made by Hitachi, implements the CF Type II interface, but is a hard disk drive (HDD) as opposed to solid-state memory. Seagate also made...
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    replaced by v2.1. Floppy disk operation requires buying the Expansion Interface, which included a single-density floppy disk interface (with a formatted capacity...
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    AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state...
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  • FDC—Floppy-Disk Controller FDS—Fedora Directory Server FDD—Frequency-Division Duplexing FDD—Floppy Disk Drive FDDI—Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDM—Frequency-Division...
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    floppy disk drive the system ran the CP/M operating system. The basic system came with a text-only monochrome video card, which could be enhanced with a...
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    a larger size. New version of AmigaOS 4.1 enhanced in 2008 its Workbench with 2D vector graphical interface based on Cairo libraries, but pragmatically...
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  • Dd (Unix) (redirect from Disk Destroyer)
    between ASCII and EBCDIC text encodings. dd is sometimes humorously called "Disk Destroyer", due to its drive-erasing capabilities involving typos. In 1974...
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    Hard Disk Drive with ATA / IDE Interface". Memec Newsletter. December 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2011.[permanent dead link] "SST announces small ATA solid-state...
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  • consistent mechanism to manage all types of disk interfaces, including IDE, irrespective of which interface the disk(s) in question used. AmigaOS diagnostic...
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    standardization to what by release time were small cost reductions, and were unwilling to retool packaging, interface chips and applications for a proprietary...
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  • different floppy-disk interfaces for the Spectrum, first the DISCiPLE (marketed by Rockfort Products) and later the cut-down +D interface (marketed by MGT...
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    comprising 2 KB directory and 178 KB storage) for a total of 360 KB per disk. The interface with the drives is an NEC 765 FDC, used for the same purpose in the...
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    storage. Unveiled in 1997 by SanDisk, Siemens, and Nokia, MMC is based on a surface-contact low-pin-count serial interface using a single memory stack substrate...
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    because small imperfections in the disk surface can be tolerated. In 1973, Control Data Corporation introduced the first of its series of SMD disk drives...
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  • memory. Changes to the user interface did not occur in this version, and rather, its performance was increased and enhanced memory management was added...
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    SD card (redirect from One-bit SD interface)
    computers that support bootstrapping from a USB interface, an SD card in a USB adapter can be the boot disk, provided it contains an operating system that...
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