Manual Organization; Terminology And Conventions - Maxtor QUICKVIEW 300 Product Manual

Introduction
1.3

MANUAL ORGANIZATION

This manual is organized into the following chapters:
• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – General Description
• Chapter 3 – Installation
• Chapter 4 – Product Specifications
• Chapter 5 – ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
• Chapter 6 – Service and Support
1.4

TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS

In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for
many of the terms used in this manual. In addition, the following
abbreviations are used in this manual:
• ASIC
• ATA
• Bels
• bpi
• DA
• dB
• dBA
• DPS
• ECC
• G rms G root mean square
• Hz
• KB
• Kfci
• LSB
• mA
• MB
• Mb/s
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application-specific integrated circuit
advanced technology attachment
sound power units
bits per inch
Double Amplitude(represents pk-pk shaker
displacement)
decibels
decibels, A weighted
Data Protection System
error correcting code
hertz
kilobytes
thousands of flux changes per inch
least significant bit
milliamperes
megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring
to disk transfer rates or storage capacities and
1,048,576 bytes in all other cases)
megabits per second