Definition: Cylinder, Head, Sector (CHS) Addressing


A method of referencing the sectors on a drive as a collection of unique cylinder, head and sector addresses. Each block on the drive will have a unique cylinder, head and sector address.




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Unrecoverable Error

A read error that cannot be overcome by an ECC scheme or by rereading the data when host retries are enabled.

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