Definition: Sector Slipping


A technique used to push-down defective sector sites during a format or reassignment operation to maintain sequential order of the data. Spares are located throughout the disk for this purpose.




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Translating BIOS

A system BIOS that allows access to EIDE drives larger than 528 MB.

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