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| IDE | intergrated drive electronics. a method of disk drive manufacturing that allocates all the reqired controller circutry in the drive |
| EIDE | allows for two IDE channels that can each support two devices |
| ATA | more commonly known as IDE, also known as the ISA bus. a 16-bit data bus |
| ATA-33 | extension to the ATA-interface (IDE) |
| SCSI | small computer standard interface. a standard data pathway used mostly for hard drives and CD-ROMS |
| Millisecond | one thousandth of a second. usually used to measure the acess speed of a hard drive. |
| System Hang | when a program fails, it has an opportunity to display an error message. When a full system failsm a message won't be shown, key input will be locked, and the system may have to be restarted |
| POST | power on self test. a group of ROM BIOS tests that are performed on the system each time it is turned on |
| Cold Boot | turning on a computer a few seconds after it has been fully turned off |
| Warm Boot | to restart a computer |
| Boot Disk | A write protected floppy disk that contains the computer's system and start up files |
| Boot Sector | a protion of a disk that contains the coded instrustions for the operating system to start the computer |
| Safe Mode | mode that is automatically loaded if WIN crashes duing bootup |
| Scanner | a device used to copy an image from a physical source |
| LPT 1 | teh lable uses in MS-DOS assigned to parallel port 1 |
| COM 1 | lable for DOS serial port 1 |
| MTBF | predicted time untill a device fails |
| drive interface | a collection of electrical and logical connections between a hard drive and a PC |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier for subdevices assigend to a single SCSI ID |
| display adapter | a PC expansion board that converts the images created in the computer to the electronic signals required by the monitor |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array. the min. standard for PC video display, which originated with IBM's PS/2 models in '87 |
| AT commands | the modem command set developed by the Hayes company for use on it's modems and now used on most modems |
| Asynchronous | a bit synchronization transmission technique that uses start and stop bits |
