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Models 330S and 660S
Glossary-2
HP Series 6000
BEND /flex cable is a brand name of flexible cabling
used within your mass storage system. BEND/flex is a
product of Rogers Corporation.
This is an abbreviation in common use for binary digit.
This is an abbreviation for Beginning Of Media. A
digital audio tape is said to be at the BOM when it has
unthreaded and can be ejected, exactly the same way a
video cassette is removed.
This is an abbreviation for Beginning Of Tape. Once a
digital audio tape has been loaded and threaded and is
ready to use, it is at BOT.
Compact Disc-Read Only Memory is the same as
consumer (audio) Compact Disc technology, and is used
to store large amounts of read-only computer data.
(The spelling of Compact Disc with a "c" for disc is an
accepted industry standard for audio media. In this
manual, however, the more familiar term CD-ROM
disk is used, unless referring explicitly to the playing of
audio Compact Discs.)
A controller PCA (Printed Circuit Assembly) connects
the SCSI bus cable and the power supply cable to a disk
drive (or other SCSI device), and performs the SCSI
commands as directed by the host computer system.
The temperature at which a magnetic material becomes
easier to magnetize is its Curie point. Rewritable optical
drives take advantage of this phenomenon: the laser
quickly heats a spot on the Magneto-Optical (MO) disk
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