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ESDI
Ethernet
Fast-Wide SCSI-2
FASTART
Fault Tolerance
Enhanced System Device Interface. This interface is
for standard hard drive data transfer at 10 megabits
per second.
A local area network cabling and signaling scheme
capable of linking up to 1024 nodes in a bus network.
Ethernet provides a data transfer rate of 10 megabits
per second.
The latest generation of Small Computer Systems
Interface (SCSI) technology. It is a high-level
peripheral communication mechanism that links
internal and external storage devices on a 16-bit bus
with a 20MB-per-second data rate. Connectors have
68 pins.
A DOS-based Compaq utility designed to partition
and format the hard drive, install MS-DOS and User
Programs, and create and change the CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. FASTART is available
only for MS-DOS as published by Compaq versions
3.11, 4.0, and 5.0.
The ability of a server to recover from hardware
problems without interrupting the server's
performance. Fault tolerance methods include drive
mirroring, data guarding, distributed data guarding,
and controller duplexing.
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