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Conversion from base 2 to base 10 numbers.

Conversion from base 10 numbers to base 2.

importance of addresses for disks in
           randomly accessible devices

physical properties of disks

Continuation of Patricia Wagner pages

Study Guide for Exam 2

Terms/Concepts
     crash
     RAID
     cluster
     ASCII/EBCDIC
     two parts of a disk
     two parts of secondary storage
     difference between CD's and disks
     what makes disks randomly accessible
     read/write head
     units of measurement for disks
     physical organization of hard drive
     error messages and track 0
     track 0 and the file allocation table
     rotational delay
     seek time
     why secondary storage access is slow

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