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  2. Logical block addressing - Wikipedia

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    In logical block addressing, only one number is used to address data, and each linear base address describes a single block. The LBA scheme replaces earlier schemes which exposed the physical details of the storage device to the software of the operating system. Chief among these was the cylinder-head-sector (CHS) scheme, where blocks were addressed by means

  3. Cylinder-head-sector - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder, head, and sector of a hard drive. Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive.. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head, a horizontal (or radial) coordinate cylinder, and an angular coordinate sector.

  4. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    Negative LBA addresses indicate a position from the end of the volume, with −1 being the last addressable block. The GUID Partition Table ( GPT ) is a standard for the layout of partition tables of a physical computer storage device , such as a hard disk drive or solid-state drive , using universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), which are also ...

  5. Fixed-block architecture - Wikipedia

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    The term fixed-block architecture was created by IBM in 1979 [3] to distinguish this format from its variable-length record format. Each track is divided into fixed-length blocks, consisting of an ID field and a data field. Application programs refer to blocks by relative block number, and cannot address them by cylinder, head and record.

  6. INT 13H - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] It defines new functions within the INT 13h service, all having function numbers greater than 40h, that use 64-bit logical block addressing (LBA), which allows addressing up to 8 ZiB. (An ATA drive can also support 28-bit or 48-bit LBA which allows up to 128 GiB or 128 PiB respectively, assuming a 512-byte sector/block size).

  7. Block diagram - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is the function block diagram, one of five programming languages defined in part 3 of the IEC 61131 (see IEC 61131-3) standard that is highly formalized (see formal system), with strict rules for how diagrams are to be built. Directed lines are used to connect input variables to block inputs, and block outputs to output ...

  8. inode pointer structure - Wikipedia

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    Example of structure. The inode pointer structure is a structure adopted by the inode of a file in the Unix File System (UFS) to list the addresses of a file's data blocks.It is also adopted by many related file systems, including the ext3 file system, popular with Linux users.

  9. Disk storage - Wikipedia

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    Digital disk drives are block storage devices. Each disk is divided into logical blocks (collection of sectors). Blocks are addressed using their logical block addresses (LBA). Read from or write to disk happens at the granularity of blocks. Originally the disk capacity was quite low and has been improved in one of several ways.