Acronyms and Abbreviations
| A |
ACK | ACKnowledge |
AEN | Asynchoronous Event Notification |
ALT | ALTernated (block) |
ARRE | Automatic Read Reallocation |
| Enabled |
ASCII | American Standard Code for |
| Information Interchange |
ASG | ASiGned block |
ATN | ATTeNtion |
AWG | American Wire Gauge |
AWRE | Automatic Write Reallocation |
| Enabled |
| B |
bpi | bits per inch |
BSY | BuSY |
BytChk | Byte Check |
| C |
C list | Target Certification list |
C/D | Control/data |
CCS | Common command set |
CDB | Common descriptor block |
CE | Customer Engineer |
CmpLst | Complete List |
CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
CYL | CYLinder |
| D |
D | Depth |
D list | Data Defect List |
DBD | Disable Block Descriptor |
DC | Direct Current |
DCR | Disable Correction |
DCRT | Disable CeRtificaTion |
DE | Disk Enclosure |
DEF | DEFective block |
DevOfl | Device Offline |
DPO | Disable Page Out |
DPRY | Disable PRimarY |
DSP | Disable Saving Parameters |
DTDC | Data Transfer Disconnect Control |
DTE | Disable Transfer on Error |
| E |
ECC | Error Correction Code |
EER | Enable Early Recovery |
EVPD | Enable Vital Product Data |
| F |
FG | Frame Ground |
FIFO | First In First Out |
FmtData Format Data | |
FOV | Format Options Valid |
FUA | Force Unit Access |
| G |
|
G | Gap |
|
G list | Grown defect list |
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| H |
|
H | Height |
|
HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
|
HSEC | Hard SECtor |
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| I |
|
I/O | Input/Output |
|
ID | IDentifier |
|
ILBN | Ideal Logical Block Number | |
Immed | Immediate |
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INDX/SCT | INDeX/SeCTor | |
IP | Initialization Pattern | |
ISG | InterSector Gap |
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| L |
|
LBdata | Logical Block data |
|
LBN | Logical Block Number | |
LED | Light Emitting Diode | |
LUN | Logical Unit Number | |
