Acronyms And Measurements; Acronyms And Abbreviations - Seagate STD124000N Product Manual

Acronyms and Measurements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Product Manual
Acronym Meaning
4DD 4 direct drive
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ATF automatic track finding
BAT block access table
BIOS basic input output system
BOM beginning of media
BOT beginning of tape
BPI bits per inch
CD compact disc
CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
CSA Canadian Standard Association
DAT digital audio tape
DCLZ Data Compression Lempel-Ziv
DDS digital data storage
DDS-DC digital data storage data compression
DDS-2 digital data storage-2
DMA direct memory access
ECC error-correction code
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
EEPROM electronically erasable, programmable read-only memory
EOD end of data
EOM end of media
EOT end of tape
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FTPI flux transitions per inch
GIT group information table
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IPS inches per second
LED light emitting diode
LSI large scale integration
LZ1 Lempel-Ziv 1 (algorithm)
LZ2 Lempel-Ziv 2 (algorithm)
LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch (algorithm)
MFM modified frequency modulation
MTBF mean time between failures
MTTR mean time to repair
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