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HIW: How It Works Documents

The HIW or How It Works Documents

Over the years Hale Landis assembled a set of How It Works documents, the HIW documents, that describe various subjects including how disk drives work and how they are supported on x86 computer systems.

• CHSxlat - CHS Translation
• DOSboot - DOS Floppy Disk Boot Sector
• FAQ - ATA FAQ
• MBR - Master Boot Record
• OS2boot - OS2 Boot Sector
• PartTable - Partition Tables

Page updated 30 Mar 2008.