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>3. Mass Storage Involved Here</H1
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>Mass storage involved in the present HOWTO are rewritable
random access ones. Most of them are magnetic rotating disks
(floppies, Hard Drive) or flash memory (USB key or any kind of
memory card).</P
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>For example, cdroms and dvds are
<STRONG
>not</STRONG
>concerned by this HOWTO (
<A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrom"
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Wikipedia</A
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>Mass storage are used by the kernel, so the basic doc can
be found on
<A
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>Reference site should be
<A
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>the International Disk drive
Equipment and Materials Association</A
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<EM
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