Maxtor Computer Drive - Manual (Page 10)

Introduction
Maxtor DiamondMax 8S 40GB SATA 1-2
• Chapter 5 – SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
• Chapter 6 – Service and Support
• Glossary
1.4 TERMINOLOGY 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
• SATA serial advanced technology attachment
• bpi bits per inch
• DA Double Amplitude (represents ph-pk shaker displacement)
• 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
transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all
other cases)
• Mb/s megabits per second
• MB/s megabytes per second
• MHz megahertz
• ms milliseconds
• MSB most significant bit
• mV millivolts
• ns nanoseconds