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hardware, storage (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The

circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a harddisk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive.

The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI

controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE

controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network fileservers mostly have SCSI adaptors.

(1998-03-16)

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