Introduction

1.3MANUAL ORGANIZATION

This manual is organized into the following chapters:

•Chapter 1 – Introduction

•Chapter 2 – General Description

•Chapter 3 – Installation

•Chapter 4 – Product Specifications

•Chapter 5 – ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

•Chapter 6 – Service and Support

1.4TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS

In the Glossary at the back of 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

• ATA

advanced technology attachment

• Bels

sound power units

• bpi

bits per inch

• DA

Double Amplitude(represents pk-pk shaker

 

displacement)

• dB

decibels

• dBA

decibels, A weighted

• DPS

Data Protection System

• ECC

error correcting code

• G rms

G root mean square

• Hz

hertz

• KB

kilobytes

• Kfci

thousands of flux changes per inch

• LSB

least significant bit

• 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)

• Mb/s

megabits per second

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