Glossary

Serial-ATA

Serial ATA is an extension specification from the current Parallel ATA physical storage interface. The parallel data transfer of Parallel ATA is changed to the serial data transfer in Serial-ATA for obtaining greater data transfer speed.

Slave (Device 1)

The slave is a second drive that can operate on the AT bus. The slave is daisy- chained with the first drive operating in conformity with the ATA standard.

Status

The status is a piece of one-byte information posted from the drive to the host when command execution is ended. The status indicates the command termination state.

VCM

Voice coil motor. The voice coil motor is excited by one or more magnets. In this drive, the VCM is used to position the heads accurately and quickly.

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