Maxtor 300 manual Manual Organization, Terminology and Conventions

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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