Introduction
•Chapter 5 – SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
•Chapter 6 – Service and Support
•Glossary
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 | |
• | SATA | serial advanced technology attachment |
• | bpi | bits per inch |
• | DA | Double Amplitude (represents |
• | dB | decibels |
• | dBA | decibels, A weighted |
• | DPS | Data Protection System |
• | EOF | End Of Frame |
• | FIS | Frame Information Source |
• | SPS | Shock Protection System |
• | ECC | error correcting code |
• | kfci | thousands of flux changes per inch |
• | Hz | hertz |
• | kB | kilobytes |
• | LSB | least significant bit |
• | mA | milliamperes |
• | MB | megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk |
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| transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all |
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| other cases) |
• | Mb/s | megabits per second |
• | MB/s | megabytes per second |
• | MHz | megahertz |
• | ms | milliseconds |
• | MSB | most significant bit |
• | mV | millivolts |
• | ns | nanoseconds |
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