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disk controllerThe circuits that control data transfer to and from the disk drive (floppy disk, hard disk, optical disc). In a PC, an IDE disk controller is typically built into the motherboard, and a cable plugs into the controller socket on one end and connects to the drive on the other. On earlier PCs, the disk controller was a separate card plugged into a PCI or ISA slot. However, when SCSI drives are used, a SCSI disk controller (SCSI host adapter) is typically not built in, but available on a separate card. See hard disk, IDE and SCSI.
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We basically had that chip and then we had the floppy disk controller as well. SST (NASDAQ:SSTI) recently announced a new stand-alone, high-performance ATA Flash Disk Controller that boasts a sustained write speed of up to 4 MBytes/sec. All this is possible because the RAID hard disk controller reconstructs the missing information from the information that resides on the remaining redundant healthy disks. |
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