
Glossary
TABLE G-1. Acronyms or Terminology.
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ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment | A standard interface for connecting a computer’s |
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| storage devices, such as |
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BIOS | Basic Input/Output System | |
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| contain the code for controlling the keyboard, monitor, |
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| disk drives, serial communications, etc. |
channel |
| A link that transports data |
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concatenation |
| The process of connecting entities |
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| single communications channel. |
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CPU | Central Processing Unit | The computational segment of a computer. |
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DMA | Direct Memory Access | A method of transferring data from a storage device |
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| to RAM without using CPU resources. |
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HBA | Host Bus Adaptor | An adaptor card that includes the I/O logic, software |
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| and processing to manage the transfer ofthat infor- |
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| mation between the host system and devices con- |
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| nected to it. |
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HDT | HD Turbo | A mode that uses the highest data rate portions of the |
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| disk drives for maximum throughput until the disk is |
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| full, but with a tradeoff in total data capacity of the |
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| disk from 40% to 80%,depending on the RAID level. |
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IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics | Most commonly used data bus for PC’s. |
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LED | Light Emitting Diode | An electronic device that illuminates when powered. |
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Linux |
| Free, |
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