Stuck on course questions

mondeo

I am stuck on a few questions here on my collage course homework. Any techies here might be able to help?



Q1: When a testing program uses a worst case scenario of 1's and 0's to locate bad sectors the process is known as:

a: MFM
B: RLL
C: Defragmenting
pattern testing

Q2: How many directory entries would limit the performance of CHKDSK:

a: 256
b: 512
c: 1024
d: 4096

Q3: If DEBUG is not available what alternative can be used to backup the MBR

a: SYSEDIT
B: RESEDIT
c: Norton Utilities
d: Command Line Interface

Thanks

jor el

Is Google broken or something? Honestly, some people are just lazy.

mondeo

jor el wrote: »

Is Google broken or something? Honestly, some people are just lazy.

Of course I've tried google, I cannot find a specific answer with it... I would not go to the bother of typing this up otherwise.

BizzyLizzy

Try using the process of elimination!

jor el

mondeo wrote: »

Q1: When a testing program uses a worst case scenario of 1's and 0's to locate bad sectors the process is known as:

a: MFM
B: RLL
C: Defragmenting
pattern testing

2nd link when you google "mfm hard disk"
MFM is a coding scheme, as is RLL. Defragmenting moves the data around so that it is contiguous, not spread out all over the disk. Pattern Testing is the only one of the 4 options that's actually a test, and writes a pattern of 1s and 0s.

Q2: How many directory entries would limit the performance of CHKDSK:

a: 256
b: 512
c: 1024
d: 4096

I'm not familiar with chkdsk's limitations.

Q3: If DEBUG is not available what alternative can be used to backup the MBR

a: SYSEDIT
B: RESEDIT
c: Norton Utilities
d: Command Line Interface

Start - Run - Sysedit. You'll see it's a system config utility. Nothing to do with MBR. Resedit seems to be a resource editor for programmers. The Command Line Interface can be used to do anything that you have a command for, or to run whatever programs are there. In itself, the command line does nothing. Norton Utilities can backup the MBR.

Diddy Kong

mondeo wrote: »

Q2: How many directory entries would limit the performance of CHKDSK:

a: 256
b: 512
c: 1024
d: 4096

The limitation is 512, but this only applies to FAT formatted file systems. The limitation is not applicable with FAT32 or NTFS.

mondeo

Thanks for that. I'm not sure about the CHKDSK limitations though. It could be 512.

jor el

Actually, these course notes must be ancient if they're referencing the likes of FAT16 and Sysedit, which are pretty much depreciated, by years. Reminds me of when I did MC6809 assembly in college, when we should have been doing Intel 8051, or PIC assembly, or even PIC C. A base introduction is good, but something that might actually be used would be better.

mondeo

jor el wrote: »

Actually, these course notes must be ancient if they're referencing the likes of FAT16 and Sysedit, which are pretty much depreciated, by years. Reminds me of when I did MC6809 assembly in college, when we should have been doing Intel 8051, or PIC assembly, or even PIC C. A base introduction is good, but something that might actually be used would be better.

Yes your right! There is alot of reference to old technology in my course..
The books I have been issued are not in date enough to cover pentium M/celeron M processors, the latest are pentium 4 according to it. I just
looked up the date of last print on my main text book which publishes May 2005'.

Anti

Thats disgraceful ! Your on a college course and they cant even provide you with recent material.

mondeo

Anti wrote: »

Thats disgraceful ! Your on a college course and they cant even provide you with recent material.

Yes well not much I can do about it now, I'll be finished it in a couple of weeks...

Thanks again for the replys, you have been helpful

FruitLover

Very obscure questions, not a whole lot of practical value to the answers. You'd want to supplement your course with modern, practical knowledge!

evil-monkey

mondeo wrote: »

Yes well not much I can do about it now, I'll be finished it in a couple of weeks...

Thanks again for the replys, you have been helpful

That's nothing. We had a lecturer last year give us notes from Wikipedia!! Good to know I'm paying my college fees to learn from the web...an unreliable source from the web at that...