A piece of hardware (such as a video monitor, disk drive, printer, or
The alignment of pin 1 on a SCSI cable connector and the
| RAM | Random Access Memory. The computer’s primary working memory in |
| which program instructions and data are stored and are accessible to the |
| CPU. Information can be written to and read from RAM. The contents of |
| RAM are lost when the computer is turned off. |
| ROM | Read Only Memory. Memory from which information can be read but not |
| changed. The contents of ROM are not erased when the computer is |
| turned off. |
| SCAM | SCSI Configured AutoMatically. A method to automatically allocate SCSI |
| IDs using software when SCAM compliant SCSI devices are attached. |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface. A specification for a |
| peripheral bus and command set. The original standard is referred to as |
| |
| SCSI Bus | A host adapter and one or more SCSI peripherals connected by cables |
| in a linear chain configuration. The host adapter may exist anywhere on |
| the chain, allowing connection of both internal and external SCSI |
| devices. A system may have more than one SCSI bus by using multiple |
| host adapters. |
| SCSI Device | Any device that conforms to the SCSI standard and is attached to the |
| SCSI bus by a SCSI cable. This includes SCSI host adapters and SCSI |
| peripherals. |
| SCSI ID | A way to uniquely identify each SCSI device on the SCSI bus. Each |
| SCSI bus has eight available SCSI IDs numbered 0 through 7 (or 0 |
| through 15 for Wide SCSI). The host adapter usually gets the highest ID |
| (7 or 15) giving it priority to control the bus. |
| SDMS | Storage Device Management System. An LSI Logic software product that |
| manages SCSI system I/O. |