Definition: Landing Zone


The heads move to this location on the inner portion of the disk when commanded, or when the power has been turned off. User data is not stored in this area of the disk.




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Soft Sectored

A technique that allows the controller to determine the beginning of a sector by reading the format information from the disk.

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