Glossary - Adaptec 1420SA Installation And User Manual

Glossary

A
activity
See task.
ACU
Array Configuration Utility. An application used to create,
configure, and manage arrays from the controller's BIOS or
MS-DOS.
array
A logical disk created from available space and made up of one or
more segments on one or more physical disks. Arrays are typically
used to provide data redundancy or enhanced I/O performance.
See also volume, spanned volume, RAID 0, RAID 1. Also known as a
container.
array initialization
See configure.
ATA
AT Bus Attachment. Standard parallel interface to IDE hard disks
typically used in desktop computers and some entry-level servers.
Serial ATA (SATA), is a successor to parallel ATA, which is
sometimes referred to as PATA.
available space/segment
Unused space on a configured disk from which logical devices
(arrays) are created. When an array is deleted, the space that it used
is returned to the available space pool.
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