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Light Emitting Diode.
LED
Laser Guided Magnetic Recording.
LGMR
Low Voltage Differential signalling is an electrical signalling system
LVD
that can run at high speeds.
Medium Auxiliary Memory (MAM) is an DLT-S4 tape drive
MAM
feature that provides information on the status and prior use history of an
SDLTtape III cartridge.
Megabyte. Equal to 1,000,000 (10
MB
System of Units (SI) definition used by telecommunications engineers
and storage manufacturers.
Motor Driver Board
MDB
Magneto Resistive.
MR
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
The capacity of a given media product in its basic
Native Capacity
recording format (without the use of data compression).
Refers to the uncompressed storage capacity of a media
Native Mode
subsystem. (See Native Capacity.)
In referring to a Fibre Channel network, a node is any device
Node
attached to the network.
Pre-amplifier Board
PAB
A method of generating redundant information that can be used
Parity
to detect errors in stored or transmitted data.
Printed Circuit Board Assembly
PCBA
A device added to a system as a complement to the basic
Peripheral
central processing unit (CPU), such as a disk drive, tape drive, or printer.
In referring to a Fibre Channel network, a port connects a node to
Port
the network.
6
) bytes. This is the International
Glossary
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