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The added resistance to the rotor damaged the drive belts and reduced the oxygen transfer capacity.
Unlike binary-addressed computer main memory, there is nothing in a disk drive that influences it to have a total capacity easily expressed using a power of 1024.
The first commercially sold disk drive, the IBM 350, had 50 ( not 32 or 64 ) physical disk " platters " containing a total of 50, 000 sectors of 100 characters each, for a total quoted capacity of " 5 million characters.
Since the block headers occupied space, the usable capacity of the drive was dependent on the block size.
By 1977, in its first edition, Disk / Trend, a leading hard disk drive industry marketing consultancy segmented the industry according to MBs ( decimal sense ) of capacity.
The hard drive industry continues to use decimal prefixes for drive capacity.
With a storage capacity of 800 KB, the 1581 was the highest capacity serial bus drive ever made by Commodore ( the 1 MB SFD-1001 used the parallel IEEE-488 ), and the only 3½ " one.
The exact capacity of a given drive is usually some number above or below the class designation.
: Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half-to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty.
* bytes ( 1024 < sup > 2 </ sup >, 2 < sup > 20 </ sup >): This definition is most commonly used in reference to computer memory ( e. g. RAM ), but most software that display file size or drive capacity, including file managers also use this definition.
The capacity of a disk drive is the product of the sector size, number of sectors per track, number of tracks per side, and the number of disk platters in the drive.
It was a natural extension to give the capacity of a disk drive in multiples of the sector size, giving a mix of decimal and binary multiples when expressing total disk capacity.
The drive was not sufficient to run as the primary medium running the NeXTSTEP operating system both in terms of speed and capacity.
There's 4-track recording in real or step time and 16 midi channel multitimbrality, a dedicated rhythm track, a built-in 3½-inch DS / DD Floppy disk drive with 100, 000 note capacity and a large LCD screen.
It featured 40, 000 note capacity, up to 8 songs, 8 phrase tracks, a 3½-inch DS / DD Floppy disk drive, separate rhythm track and temp tracks, 32 channel MIDI and FSK sync.
40, 000-note internal capacity, with the built-in disk drive, you can store approximately 150, 000 events on a 3½-inch DS / DD Floppy disk drive.
Anyone holding a valid Ontario driver's license ( i. e., excluding a motorcycle license ) with a " Z " endorsement can legally drive any air-brake-equipped truck-trailer combination with a registered-or actual-gross-vehicle-weight ( i. e., including towing-and towed-vehicle ) up to 11 metric tonnes, that includes one trailer weighing no more than 4. 6 tonnes if the license falls under the following three classes: Class E ( school bus — maximum 24-passenger capacity or ambulance ), F ( regular bus — maximum 24-passenger capacity or ambulance ) or G ( car, van, or small-truck ).
Shoe-shining decreases the attainable data transfer rate, drive and tape life, and tape capacity.

drive and was
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
A fund-raising drive to buy tractors and machinery was launched.
When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.
It embraced determining when to purchase and when to trade vehicles, who was to drive, when and where repairs were to be made, where gasoline and automobile services were to be obtained and other allied matters.
She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
In some cities games were broadcast throughout the week and then on weekends the announcer was silenced, and fans must needs drive to the city from all the broadcast area to discover how their heroes were faring.
The insistence of Bienville upon giving liberal prices to the Indians, in order to drive back the Carolina traders, was probably a factor that led to his recall in 1724.
Barnard, who pleaded no defense to manslaughter and hit-run charges, was fined $500 by Judge Warren K. Hess, and placed on two years' probation providing he does not drive during that time.
The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.
The motorist later was identified as Richard Sarkees, 17, of 2433 McClellan, currently on probation and under court order not to drive.
John did find the missing checks and money afterward, and the drive was actually oversubscribed, which was a real bit of luck for the missionaries.
That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??
Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.
Ealdred unsuccessfully tried to drive off the raiders, but was again routed by the Welsh.
The drive was smoother than that of the previous day, as the craters were more shallow and boulders were less abundant north of the immediate landing site.
The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.
The Acorn Plus 3 was a hardware module that connected independently of the Plus 1 and provided a double-density 3½ ” disc drive connected through a WD1770 drive controller and an ADFS ROM.

drive and usually
However travel through very remote areas, on isolated tracks, requires planning and a suitable, reliable vehicle ( usually a four-wheel drive ).
Both clutch and flywheel are enclosed in a conical bellhousing, which ( in a rear-wheel drive car ) usually forms the main mounting for the gearbox.
The duo, usually led by Ray, are known for rants on the evils of the internal combustion engine, people who talk on cell phones while driving, Peugeots, women named Donna who always seem to drive Camaros, lawyers, the clever use of the English language, and practically anything else, including themselves.
A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism with fixed or removable media ; with removable media the device is usually distinguished from the media as in compact disc drive and the compact disc.
However, Hong Kong registered vehicles may apply for secondary mainland Chinese registration plates, and these can be driven across the border to mainland China ; likewise, left-hand drive cars seen in Hong Kong are usually primarily registered in mainland China and carry supplementary Hong Kong registration plates.
Home runs are among the most popular aspects of baseball and, as a result, prolific home run hitters are usually the most popular among fans and consequently the highest paid by teams — hence the old saying, variously attributed to slugger Ralph Kiner, or to a teammate talking about Kiner, " Home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Fords.
Sex drive has usually biological, psychological, and social components.
Use of the ZTT ( Zero Temporal Transit ) faster-than-light drive allows Adamists to colonize star-systems, usually through the settling of both planets and asteroid belts.
The necessary keys are usually too large to memorize ( but see proposal Passmaze ) and must be stored on a local computer, security token or portable memory device, such as a USB flash drive or even floppy disk.
However, computer networks were still limited, and media were usually delivered over non-streaming channels, such as by downloading a digital file from a remote server and then saving it to a local drive on the end user's computer or storing it as a digital file and playing it back from CD-ROMs.
A misaligned drive head was rare usually fixing itself by smashing against the rail stops.
Modern on-highway diesel engines are designed to provide maximum torque in a narrow RPM range ( usually 1200-1500 RPM ); having more gear ratios means the driver can hold the engine in its optimum range regardless of road speed ( drive axle ratio is also a critical factor ).
It is usually found on FM radio music stations in morning drive, as the actual hot talk formatted stations have only achieved mediocre success as a whole compared to AM or conservative talk radio, or even FM music radio.
The IPL device is usually a disk drive, but exactly the same procedure is also used to IPL from other input-type devices, such as tape drives, or even card readers, in a device-independent manner, allowing, for example, the installation of an operating system on a brand-new computer from an OS initial distribution magnetic tape ( for disk controllers, the </ tt > 02h </ tt > command also causes the selected device to seek to cylinder < tt > 0000h </ tt >, head < tt > 0000h </ tt >, and to search for record </ tt > 01h </ tt >, thereby also simulating a stand-alone seek command, </ tt > 07h </ tt >, and a search ID equal command, </ tt > 31h </ tt >; seeks and searches are not simulated by tape and card controllers ).
Pre-emphasis is usually employed in frequency modulation or phase modulation transmitters to equalize the modulating signal drive power in terms of deviation ratio.
On start-up, the bootloader ( usually contained in a ROM firmware chip ) would load the operating system from the disk in drive.
A sport utility vehicle ( SUV ) is a vehicle similar to a station wagon or estate car, usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on-or off-road ability.
Vibraphones usually have an electric motor and pulley assembly mounted on one side or the other to drive the disks in the resonators.
Whatever speed adjustments were possible were made by moving the drive belt among a small number of pulleys ( usually three ) of varying diameters.
It is usually an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle mounting a machine gun, light anti-aircraft gun, recoilless rifle, or other support weapon.
A reciprocating probe is mounted on an arm that is moved into and back out of the plasma, usually in about one second by means of either a pneumatic drive or an electromagnetic drive using the ambient magnetic field.

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