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adapter
A device, usually in the form of a user interface card, that physically connects
a computer to the SCSI bus. Also referred to as a host adapter.
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Organization which coordinates, develops and publishes standards used in the
United States.
asynchronous transmission
A data transmission technique where the initiator and the target lock into a
transfer of data, each block of data must be acknowledged before the next
block is transmitted.
Attenuation
Signal power lost in a transmission medium as the signal travels from sender
to receiver.
Bus Device Reset
A SCSI message to a target that instructs the target to clear all activity.
Byte
An eight-bit unit of data. It is usually the smallest addressable unit in memory.
CBR (Constant Bit Rate)
The transmission of bits at a fixed rate over a network or over a
communications bus.
CCB (Command Control Block)
A block of information prepared by the host computer, for the SCSI adapter, to
provide the adapter with parameters needed to execute a SCSI command.
Glossary
GL-1
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