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Quantum A-Series Tape Drives User's Guide
The International Organization for Standardization is an
ISO
international non-governmental standard-setting body made up
of representatives from national standards bodies.
Independent Software Vendor.
ISV
A kilobyte is a unit of measure equal to 1 thousand (1024) bytes.
KB
SI — 1 000 000 bytes or 10
Light Emitting Diode.
LED
Laser Guided Magnetic Recording.
LGMR
A Micrometer is an SI unit of length. It is defined as one millionth
µM
of a metre (1 × 10
millimeter.
Medium Auxiliary Memory (MAM) is an SDLT 600A tape drive
MAM
feature that provides information on the status and prior use
history of a Super DLTtape cartridge.
Megabyte
MB
SI — 1 000 000 bytes or 10
of Units (SI) definition used by telecommunications engineers
and storage manufacturers.
1 048 576 bytes - 1024
computer science and computer programming, when talking
about the size of files or computer memory. The reason is that
computers use the binary numeral system internally.
Note: For the purpose of this document, SI is used.
Magneto Resistive Cluster Heads. A cluster of small, cost-
MRC Heads
effective Magneto Resistive (MR) media heads packed densely
together.
A Millisecond is equal to one thousandth of a second.
ms
Mean Time Between Failures.
MTBF
Material eXchange Format, is a file format designed to improve
MXF
data and metadata exchange. The targeted objective is the
interoperability between content creation mainframes, work
stations and peripherals.
This wrapper file format was designed to make use of current
and forthcoming data formats. It also permits conveyance of
metadata following standardized schemes. This metadata is used
6
bytes. Computer usage — 1024 bytes.
-6
m), equivalent to one thousandth of a
6
bytes. This is the International System
2 20
, or 2 . This definition is often used in
Glossary
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