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  2. Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia

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    Some operating systems, notably Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, do not configure themselves to load the AHCI driver upon boot if the SATA controller was not in AHCI mode at the time the operating system was installed. Although this is an easily rectifiable condition, it remains an ongoing issue with the AHCI ...

  3. BIOS interrupt call - Wikipedia

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    BIOS interrupt calls perform hardware control or I/O functions requested by a program, return system information to the program, or do both. A key element of the purpose of BIOS calls is abstraction - the BIOS calls perform generally defined functions, and the specific details of how those functions are executed on the particular hardware of the system are encapsulated in the BIOS and hidden ...

  4. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    In computing, BIOS (/ ˈ b aɪ ɒ s,-oʊ s /, BY-oss, -⁠ohss; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). [1]

  5. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Windows 8/8.1 also supports the SCSI unmap command, an analog of SATA TRIM, for USB-attached SSDs or SATA-to-USB enclosures. It is also supported over USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP). While Windows 7 supported automatic TRIM for internal SATA SSDs, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 support manual TRIM as well as automatic TRIM for SATA, NVMe and USB ...

  6. SATA - Wikipedia

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    A 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive A 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid-state drive. SATA was announced in 2000 [4] [5] in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing ...

  7. Serial Attached SCSI - Wikipedia

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    Storage servers housing 24 SAS hard disk drives per server. A typical Serial Attached SCSI system consists of the following basic components: An initiator: a device that originates device-service and task-management requests for processing by a target device and receives responses for the same requests from other target devices.

  8. Acer Aspire One - Wikipedia

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    Some peripherals, like a USB mouse or Ethernet port, will not be detected by the standard setup and may require manual tweaking. There are exceptions - the Aspire One ZG5 will not boot DOS directly. A workaround is to boot DOS from a USB drive first to access a FAT16 partition (must be the first partition) on the hard drive.

  9. Samsung NC10 - Wikipedia

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    The Samsung NC10 (Samsung SENS NC10 in South Korea) is a subnotebook/netbook computer designed by Samsung.At the time of its introduction (2008), it was noted for its combination of a 10.2" screen and large 6-cell battery as standard, giving a battery life of up to 7.5 hours, [1] a large hard disk drive and a release price of 499 USD (299 GBP).