About This Manual

￿￿￿6'4/+01In the Glossary.1);at￿#0&the back￿%108'06+105of 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

application-specific integrated circuit

Kbpi

thousands of bits per inch

dB

decibels

dBA

decibels, A weighted

ECC

error correcting code

Kfci

thousands of flux changes per inch

Gbit

gigabit

GB

gigabyte

Hz

hertz

KB

kilobytes

LSB

least significant bit

LVDS

low voltage differential SCSI

mA

milliamperes

MB

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)

Mbit/s

megabits per second

MB/s

megabytes per second

MHz

megahertz

ms

milliseconds

MSB

most significant bit

mV

millivolts

ns

nanoseconds

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

tpi

tracks per inch

∝ s

microseconds

V

volts

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Maxtor 10K III manual Application-specific integrated circuit, Error correcting code, Least significant bit, Milliamperes