IBM 3592 Maintenance Information page 330

magnetic tape
A tape with a surface layer on which data can be stored by magnetic recording.
MAN
Metropolitan area network.
Data network that is designed for a town or a city. In a comparison of geographic breadth, a MAN is a
computer network that is larger than a LAN but smaller than a WAN.
MAP
Maintenance analysis procedure.
In hardware maintenance, a step-by-step procedure that a CE uses to trace a symptom to the cause of
a failure.
MAQ
Maintenance agreement qualification.
mask
A pattern of characters that controls the retention or elimination of portions of another pattern of
characters. To use a pattern of characters to control the retention or elimination of portions of another
pattern of characters.
MB
Megabyte (often expressed as a data rate in MB/s or MB/second, for megabytes per second).
MB/s
One megabyte per second = 10
Mb
Megabit. One Megabit = 10
Mb/s
One megabit per second (Mb/s) = 10
mebi
Binary prefix for 2
media capacity
The amount of data that can be contained on a storage medium, expressed in bytes of data.
mega
Prefix for 'million' (10
megabyte (MB)
One million bytes.
MES
Miscellaneous equipment specification.
metric system
Deprecated term for the SI system.
MI
Maintenance information.
MiB
One mebibyte (MiB) = 2
Mib
One mebibit (Mib) = 2
Mib/s
One mebibit per second (Mib/s) = 2
micro
Prefix for 'millionth of ' (10
midtape
Tape that was is not in the first or final 1.8 m (6 ft) of tape in the cartridge.
310 IBM 3592 TS1140, TS1150, TS1155, and TS1160 Tape Drives: Maintenance Information
6
bytes per second = 1,000,000 bytes per second.
6
bits = 1,000,000 bits.
6
bits per second = 1,048,576 bits per second.
20
.
6
).
20
bytes = 1,048,576 bytes.
20
bits = 1,048,576 bits.
20
bits per second = 1,048,576 bits per second.
-6
).