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A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read.
A track is a physical division of data in a disk drive, as used in the Cylinder-Head-Record (CCHHRR) addressing mode of a CKD disk. The concept is concentric, through the physical platters, being a data circle per each cylinder of the whole disk drive. In other words, the number of tracks on a single surface in the drive exactly equals the number of cylinders of the drive.
Tracks are subdivided into blocks (or sectors, pages) (see: Storage block and Virtual page).
The term track is sometimes prefaced with the word logical (i.e. "3390-9 has 3 logical tracks per physical track") to emphasize the fact when used as an abstract concept, not a track in the physical sense.
Disk storage is a general category of storage mechanisms where data are recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are the hard disk drive (HDD) containing a non-removable disk, the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk, and various optical disc drives and associated optical disc media.
(The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g. the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit").
Audio information was originally recorded by analog methods (see Sound recording and reproduction). Similarly the first video disc used an analog recording method. In the music industry, analog recording has been mostly replaced by digital optical technology where the data are recorded in a digital format with optical information.
Disc or disk (computing and American English) may refer to:
Track or Tracks may refer to:
Drive or The Drive may refer to:
My book "Patterns in Data Management" is now available both as an ebook or a print book (with color graphics!). See: http://amzn.to/1Ts3rwx This book is not a standard textbook on database techniques. This book was written extending and complementing preexisting educational videos (including this one). Why would hard disks still be important these days? What is a platter? What is a diskhead and a disk arm? How do tracks and cylinders relate? What is the difference of a circular sector from a HD sector? What is zone bit recording? What does this imply for sequential access? Where are self-correcting blocks used? What is the difference of HD sectors and operating systems blocks? What is physical cylinder/head/sector-addressing? What is logical cylinder/head/sector-addressing? How does it r...
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Magnetic tape may be ancient history for audio, but it's still an important way to store backup data! What advantages do they have over more common HDDs and SSDs? Thanks to Audible for supporting our channel. Get a free 30 day trial at http://www.audible.com/techquickie. Follow: http://twitter.com/luke_lafr Join the community: http://linustechtips.com
The floppy drives are back with multiplied force. Cover of Imperial March by computer hardware orchestra. Which song would you like to hear next? More info: http://silent.org.pl/home/ .
A detailed tutorial video on How to open the Xbox 360 Slim CD / DVD / Disk Drive tray without damaging your console and to fix the stuck tray. Make sure you check the limit switch right next to the cd drive motor as if it's loose it will also cause the tray to jam. See 12:10 in the video. Please comment if you have any questions, Share and Like.... and of course Subscribe to see more tutorials. Find us here http://www.globalgarage.com.au/ Support me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GlobalGarageAus
Our magnificent IBM 729 7-track magnetic tape drive is giving us read and write errors. We attempt another heroic repair. Which is a great excuse to take a close look at its amazing innards. Looks like nothing in the video, but just putting the 3 brush blocks back was a 3 hour operation with mostly 6 hands at a time inside the drives - including mine, which is why there is no video documenting it. Hence the clapping at the end, we were quite relieved we did put it back together correctly! Tape capacity is around 20 MB at the highest (800 cpi) density setting. Actually quite respectable if you compare it to this machine's main memory (16KB). Credits: Special thanks to Samtec for fabricating and donating the IBM-spec special wire. Extra special thanks to Shashi Chuganey for spooling the w...
See and hear a Shugart 850 drive reading a 77 track, 15 sector/track, 256 byte/sector 8 inch floppy disk. Disk controller is an FC5025 from Device Side Data (http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html), drive signal conditioner and power converter from DBit (http://dbit.com/fdadap.html).
This artist’s rendering illustrates new findings about a star shredded by a black hole. When a star wanders too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces rip the star apart. In these events, called “tidal disruptions,” some of the stellar debris is flung outward at high speed while the rest falls toward the black hole. This causes a distinct X-ray flare that can last for a few years. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer, and ESA/NASA’s XMM-Newton collected different pieces of this astronomical puzzle in a tidal disruption event called ASASSN-14li, which was found in an optical search by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in November 2014. The event occurred near a supermassive black hole estimated to weigh a few million times the mass of th...
This was one of the early action games published by Broderbund. The boot sequence sounds like the quarter tracks used in David's Midnight Magic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lngM8bxaE&index;=16&list;=PLSdjkDPwvoORcQEgyy0UB4BiKnrKz82uZ).
A previously non-working 40/80 track switchable floppy disk drive now works fine It is being formatted using an Acorn BBC model B+ 64Kb machine.
Неисправный жёсткий диск ищет дорожку. Defective hard disk drive seeks the track.
My book "Patterns in Data Management" is now available both as an ebook or a print book (with color graphics!). See: http://amzn.to/1Ts3rwx This book is not a standard textbook on database techniques. This book was written extending and complementing preexisting educational videos (including this one). Why would hard disks still be important these days? What is a platter? What is a diskhead and a disk arm? How do tracks and cylinders relate? What is the difference of a circular sector from a HD sector? What is zone bit recording? What does this imply for sequential access? Where are self-correcting blocks used? What is the difference of HD sectors and operating systems blocks? What is physical cylinder/head/sector-addressing? What is logical cylinder/head/sector-addressing? How does it r...
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
Magnetic tape may be ancient history for audio, but it's still an important way to store backup data! What advantages do they have over more common HDDs and SSDs? Thanks to Audible for supporting our channel. Get a free 30 day trial at http://www.audible.com/techquickie. Follow: http://twitter.com/luke_lafr Join the community: http://linustechtips.com
The floppy drives are back with multiplied force. Cover of Imperial March by computer hardware orchestra. Which song would you like to hear next? More info: http://silent.org.pl/home/ .
A detailed tutorial video on How to open the Xbox 360 Slim CD / DVD / Disk Drive tray without damaging your console and to fix the stuck tray. Make sure you check the limit switch right next to the cd drive motor as if it's loose it will also cause the tray to jam. See 12:10 in the video. Please comment if you have any questions, Share and Like.... and of course Subscribe to see more tutorials. Find us here http://www.globalgarage.com.au/ Support me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GlobalGarageAus
Our magnificent IBM 729 7-track magnetic tape drive is giving us read and write errors. We attempt another heroic repair. Which is a great excuse to take a close look at its amazing innards. Looks like nothing in the video, but just putting the 3 brush blocks back was a 3 hour operation with mostly 6 hands at a time inside the drives - including mine, which is why there is no video documenting it. Hence the clapping at the end, we were quite relieved we did put it back together correctly! Tape capacity is around 20 MB at the highest (800 cpi) density setting. Actually quite respectable if you compare it to this machine's main memory (16KB). Credits: Special thanks to Samtec for fabricating and donating the IBM-spec special wire. Extra special thanks to Shashi Chuganey for spooling the w...
See and hear a Shugart 850 drive reading a 77 track, 15 sector/track, 256 byte/sector 8 inch floppy disk. Disk controller is an FC5025 from Device Side Data (http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html), drive signal conditioner and power converter from DBit (http://dbit.com/fdadap.html).
A detailed tutorial video on How to open the Xbox 360 Slim CD / DVD / Disk Drive tray without damaging your console and to fix the stuck tray. Make sure you check the limit switch right next to the cd drive motor as if it's loose it will also cause the tray to jam. See 12:10 in the video. Please comment if you have any questions, Share and Like.... and of course Subscribe to see more tutorials. Find us here http://www.globalgarage.com.au/ Support me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GlobalGarageAus
A short video covering the repair of a Commodore 1541 C Floppy Disk Drive. Mitsumi Newtronics Head coil resistance readings on a working drive:- red & yellow: 25.6 Ohm red & black: 12.4 Ohm red & blue: 23.8 Ohm yellow & black: 13.8 Ohm yellow & blue: 25.2 Ohm black & blue: 12.0 Ohm For the Newtronics 1541C model:- J3 ON = track 0 bump J3 OFF = track 0 use photo sensor J1 ON J2 ON = DEVICE 8 J1 OFF J2 ON = DEVICE 9 J1 ON J2 OFF = DEVICE 10 J1 OFF J2 OFF = DEVICE 11 Cleaned the heads really well twice, still not reading at all - zeros coming back no matter what is read. It was reporting 74 errors most of the time. After de-magnetising the heads it started giving 27 (CRC?) errors, so it actually came back to life at that point. Then after more cleaning, and eventually using a...
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Video of me going through all the controls inside the cab of a Versatile 450 tractor. Also cover some of the service points in the end of the video. I covered a lot of stuff but if anyone had any questions or a better explanation just ask in the comment section and I will answer you. This video was made just for fun and not meant to replace your operators manual.
First I show you a project I started on May 5, 2016 to record audio on magnetic discs (naked floppy discs) using record cutting hardware. I abandoned the project when I discovered that Telefunken had created a grooved magnetic disc recorder! In the video, I show you both my project and how I restored the Telefunken. The databits channel is pleased to provide you with the best in new tech, vintage and oddity gadgets, media formats, repair projects, electronic experiments and restorations of thrift store finds. There are also many "how to" and instructional titles. The goal is to search through garage sales, antique malls and resale shops for gadgets you didn't know existed, electronic toys you had as a kid, stereo or turntables your parents used or a film projector your school used to ...
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What's inside a $250,000 1980's vintage IBM server hard drive used in banks? 1989 vintage Model 3390 mod2 1.89GB or 3.78GB http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3390.html Forum Topic: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-395-world's-most-expensive-hard-drive-teardown/ EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com EEVblog Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20 Donations: http://www.eevblog.com/donations/ Projects: http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ Electronics Info Wiki: http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/
A short (long actually lol) video covering some more things related to the 1541C Floppy Drive. Sorry there's a couple of editing errors in here =/ Mitsumi Newtronics Head coil resistance readings on a working drive:- red & yellow: 25.6 Ohm red & black: 12.4 Ohm red & blue: 23.8 Ohm yellow & black: 13.8 Ohm yellow & blue: 25.2 Ohm black & blue: 12.0 Ohm For the Newtronics 1541C model:- J3 ON = track 0 bump J3 OFF = track 0 use photo sensor J1 ON J2 ON = DEVICE 8 J1 OFF J2 ON = DEVICE 9 J1 ON J2 OFF = DEVICE 10 J1 OFF J2 OFF = DEVICE 11
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