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High Capacity Disk DrivesA+ Tutorials - High Capacity Disk Drives
Before You Begin
Lesson 1: CD-ROM Drives
Advantages of CD-ROM Drives
Development of the CD
About CD-ROM Standards
CD-ROM Technology
Connecting a CD-ROM Drive
Audio Capability
Access Time
Installing a CD-ROM Drive
Multimedia
Lesson Summary
Lesson 2: Advanced Hard Disk Drives
Limitations of Early Hard Disk Drives
EIDE
Overcoming the 528-MB Barrier
Breaking the 8.4-GB barrier
Ultra DMA
Installing EIDE Drives
Other Settings
Lesson Summary
Lesson 3: SCSI Drives
SCSI-1
SCSI-2
SCSI-3
Noise and SCSI
Memory Management
Costs and Benefits of SCSI
The Future of SCSI
Setting SCSI IDs
Logical Unit Numbers (LUN)
Termination
Lesson Summary
Tutorial Summary
Review
This tutorial look at disk drives, moving on to more advanced technologies. The lessons in this tutorial cover CD-ROM drives, newer and larger hard disk drives, and Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) drives.