is used to ensure that the mechanics of the drive have positioned the read/write head over the correct location. The data area contains the sync bytes, user data, and an error-correcting code (ECC) that is used to check and possibly correct errors that may have been introduced into the data.

History

The first disk drive, the 1957 IBM 350 disk storage, had ten 100-character sectors per track; each character contained six

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