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What is the maximum data transfer rate of SATA revision 1.0?
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150 MB/s
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Which of these is the delay it takes for the hard drive to access a particular sector on the disk?
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Latency
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What should you do first to repair a drive that is acting sluggish?
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Run Disk Defragmenter
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How much data can a SATA revision 3.0 drive transfer per second?
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6.0 Gb/s
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How many pins are there in a SATA drive's data and power connectors?
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7 and 15
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What kind of cable does a floppy drive use?
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34-pin IDE
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What is the maximum data transfer rate of an Ultra3 SCSI device?
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160 MB/s
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In a two drive IDE configuration, drive 0 would be the ________, and drive 1 would be the _________.
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Master, slave
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What is a standard connector for an external SCSI device?
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68 pin
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Which of the following is hot-swappable?
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Hard drives
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What devices would use a SCSI cable?
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Tape drives
Hard drives |
You upgrade a computer's older SCSI drive with a new and much larger SCSI drive and upgrade the driver for the controller. However, when you reboot, the computers SCSI controller still doesn't recognize the new drive. What should you do?
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Check for firmware update for the SCSI controller
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Which are the possible symptoms of hard drive failure?
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System lock-up
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You just replaced a SATA hard drive that you suspected had failed. You also replaced the data cable between the hard drive and the motherboard. When you reboot the computer, you notice that the SATA drive is not recognized by the BIOS. What most likely happened to cause this?
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The SATA port is faulty
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You are troubleshooting a SATA hard drive that doesn't function on a PC. When you try it on another computer it works fine. You suspect a power issue and decide to take voltage readings from the SATA power connector coming from the power supply. What readings should you find?
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3.3 V, 5 V, 12V
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