LAB 6 Computer Hardware

DO NOT WRITE ON THESE SHEETS. Use your own paper. You are to turn in Section III at the end of the lab.

I. During the Lecture/demonstration of Mike Wilson, you should understand each of the following:

III. Turn in at the end of the Lab (on your own paper) the results of your findings of the following

Currently, you need to only set the appropriate jumpers and the system will "auto detect" what type of hard drive you have and the system will set up the appropriate parameters in the CMOS automatically. However in the older systems with smaller drives, the user had to manually set the CMOS parameters. To find the parameters for the on Seagate ST-225 hard drive, do the following.

1. Open the hard drive ST-225 and write down how many heads you think the drive has_____

2. Open Netscape and go to the web site http://www.blue-planet.com/tech/

3. Select DRIVES in the left frame

4. Select SEGATE

5. Find this MFM coded Seagate ST-225 and scroll down to see the old CMOS settings that had to be entered before the system would recognize your hard drive. Enter the following parameters

a. Number of heads ______

b. Number of sectors per drive ______

c. Number of tracks per drive _______

d. Number of sectors per track _______ (you must calculate this value)

e. Total capacity in MB_____

For more on partitioning your hard drive, check the site

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/11/tu1611.008.html

What is the probable wasted space if you had a partition of 1.6 GB?______

For your information: Mother board reviews. Some things that you should consider in mother board replacements. http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard.html

III. Use one of the old systems to do the following

A. Remove and replace one SIMM

B. Remove and replace one interface card.

C. Remove and replace the hard drive or the floppy drive

NAME ________________________ Lab Section _______________

Turn in this sheet at the end of the lab. This is not a group project! Find these on your own.

IV Match the letter of the object in the computer with its description below (1 pt. each)