Terminology And Conventions - Maxtor Computer Drive Product Manual

• Chapter 5 – SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
• Chapter 6 – Service and Support
• Glossary
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TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS

In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for many of the
terms used in this manual. In addition, the following abbreviations are used in this
manual:
• ASIC
• SATA
• bpi
• DA
• dB
• dBA
• DPS
• EOF
• FIS
• SPS
• ECC
• kfci
• Hz
• kB
• LSB
• mA
• MB
• Mb/s
• MB/s
• MHz
• ms
• MSB
• mV
• ns
application-specific integrated circuit
serial advanced technology attachment
bits per inch
Double Amplitude (represents ph-pk shaker displacement)
decibels
decibels, A weighted
Data Protection System
End Of Frame
Frame Information Source
Shock Protection System
error correcting code
thousands of flux changes per inch
hertz
kilobytes
least significant bit
milliamperes
megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk
transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all
other cases)
megabits per second
megabytes per second
megahertz
milliseconds
most significant bit
millivolts
nanoseconds
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