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  2. Host protected area - Wikipedia

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    Some vendor-specific external drive enclosures (e.g. Maxtor, owned by Seagate since 2006) are known to use HPA to limit the capacity of unknown replacement hard drives installed into the enclosure. When this occurs, the drive may appear to be limited in size (e.g. 128 GB), which can look like a BIOS or dynamic drive overlay (DDO) problem.

  3. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields , or suffering a sharp impact or ...

  4. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Floppy-disk drive or adapter 700–799: Math coprocessor 900–999: Parallel printer port 1000–1099: Alternate printer adapter 1100–1299: Asynchronous communication device, adapter, or port 1300–1399: Game port 1400–1499: Color/graphics printer 1500–1599: Synchronous communication device, adapter, or port 1700–1799: Hard drive or ...

  5. Hard Disk Sentinel - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel DOS version was released in different formats on bootable pen drive, CD, floppy. Usable when no operating system installed (or if the system is not bootable otherwise) to detect and display temperature, health status of IDE, SATA hard disk drives and with limited AHCI controller support.

  6. List of defunct hard disk manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Resold drives through partnership with Magnetic Peripherals; CII-Honeywell-Bull was itself a joint venture between Compagnie Internationale d'Informatique, Honeywell, and Groupe Bull [31] Cogito Systems: United States: 1983: 1985: Dissolution [32] [33] Comport: United States: 1988: 1991: Dissolution [34] [35] Computer Memories, Inc. United ...

  7. Device driver - Wikipedia

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    If such drivers malfunction, they do not cause system instability. The Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) model continues to allow development of kernel-mode device drivers but attempts to provide standard implementations of functions that are known to cause problems, including cancellation of I/O operations, power management, and plug-and ...

  8. James R. Houghton - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

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    From January 2008 to May 2009, if you bought shares in companies when James R. Houghton joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -24.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a -39.2 percent return from the S&P 500.

  9. Dell PERC - Wikipedia

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    A Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller, or Dell PERC, is a series of RAID, disk array controllers made by Dell for its PowerEdge server computers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The controllers support SAS and SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs).