Glossary Appendix A
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Glossary
This section defines some of the acronyms and technical terms used in this manual.
ABRT Status register bit: command has been aborted
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ATA AT (bus) Attachment
ATA-1 The first defined standard for ATA devices.
ATA-2 Revision 2 of ATA-1
ATA-3 Revision 3 of ATA-1
ATA-4 Revision 4 of ATA-1. This revision introduced UltraDMA
ATAPI ATA Packet Interface—The interface providing for communications
between the host computer and the drive (standard QIC-157). This is
a protocol defined for devices that physically attach to the AT bus, but
which store parameters in command packets instead of using the
Host taskfile registers.
AZIMUTH The angular deviation, in minutes of arc, of the mean flux transition
line from the normal to the cartridge reference plane.
BEZEL Front panel of drive
BIOS Basic I/O Subsystem
BIT A single digit in binary number system.
BIT CELL A length of magnetic recording tape within which the occurrence of a
flux transition signifies a “one” bit and the absence signifies a “0” bit.
BMIDE Bus Master IDE
BLOCK A group of 512 consecutive data bytes plus additional control bytes
recorded as a unit.
BOM Beginning of Media
BOP Beginning of Partition. The position at the beginning of the permissible
recording region of a partition.
BOT Beginning of tape marker indicating beginning of tape.
BPI Bits per inch
BRIDGE An electronic device that physically connects two or more dissimilar
busses, perhaps including complex behaviors or translations.
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