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Power-on self-test. A power-on self-test ( POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. [ 1] POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detect if any hardware components are non-functional.
CHKDSK. In computing, CHKDSK (short for "check disk") is a system tool and command in DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, [ 1] IBM / Toshiba 4690 OS, [ 2] IBM OS/2, [ 3] Microsoft Windows and related operating systems. It verifies the file system integrity of a volume and attempts to fix logical file system errors.
The disk of a Class 0 protostar is thought to be massive and hot. It is an accretion disk, which feeds the central protostar. [39] [40] The temperature can easily exceed 400 K inside 5 AU and 1,000 K inside 1 AU. [51] The heating of the disk is primarily caused by the viscous dissipation of turbulence in it and by the infall of the gas from the ...
[3] [4] In 2005, UEFI deprecated EFI 1.10 (the final release of EFI). UEFI is independent of platform and programming language, but C is used for the reference implementation TianoCore EDKII. Contrary to its predecessor BIOS which is a de facto standard originally created by IBM as proprietary software, UEFI is an open standard maintained by an ...
Hysteresis. Electric displacement field D of a ferroelectric material as the electric field E is first decreased, then increased. The curves form a hysteresis loop. Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on ...
The point spread function ( PSF) describes the response of a focused optical imaging system to a point source or point object. A more general term for the PSF is the system's impulse response; the PSF is the impulse response or impulse response function (IRF) of a focused optical imaging system. The PSF in many contexts can be thought of as the ...
Write-ahead logging. In computer science, write-ahead logging ( WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. [ 1] A write ahead log is an append-only auxiliary disk-resident structure used for crash and transaction recovery. The changes are first recorded in the log ...
The phenomenon of disk failure is not limited only to drives, but also applies to other types of magnetic media. In the late 1990s, Iomega's 100-megabyte Zip disks used in Zip drives were affected by the click of death, called so because the drives endlessly clicked when accessed, indicating the impending failure. 3.5-inch floppy disks can also fall victim to disk failure.