Atari MEGAFILE 20 Owner's Manual page 59

physical
unit
The
entire
hard
disk
drive.
Each
hard
disk drive
connected
to
your
system
is
a
physical
unit.
root
sector
The
sector
of
the
hard
disk that
stores
boot
and
partition
information.
If
the
root
sector
is
missing
or
damaged, you
will
not
be
able
to
use your hard
disk.
sector
A
portion
of
a track
on
the hard
disk.
A
sector
holds
512
bytes
of
data.
(See
tracks.)
SHIP.PRG
An
Atari
hard
disk
utility
program
that
parks the
drive
heads
over
an unused
portion
of
the
disk.
Parking the drive
heads
protects your
data
when
you
move
or
ship
your hard
disk.
tracks Data storage areas
consisting
of
concentric
circles
on
the disk
(similar
to
the tracks
on
a
record).
Tracks
are set
during formatting
and
are divided
into
sectors.
WINCAP
A
text
file
used
by
the
HDX
program.
WINCAP
contains disk
parameter information
needed
to
format
and
partition
the
hard
disk.
zero To
erase
the entire
contents
of
a
logical drive.
You
zero a
logical
drive with the
Zero
option
of
the
HDX
program.
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