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| IDE | A method of disk drive manufaturing that allocates all the required controller circutry |
| EIDE | Allows for two IDE channels that support two devices . |
| AT Attachment(ATA) | A 16-bit data bus. |
| ATA-33 | An extesion of the ATA interfacethat will effectivly double in the top data transfer. |
| SCSI | Small computer inferface s for hard drives and CD-Rom devices, it can be used for scanners. |
| Millisecond | A thousandth of a second |
| System Hang | when a program phrase that usually has an oppurtunity to display an error or disanosite message |
| POST | Power on self test, a group of BIOS Roms diagnostic tests that are preformed on each time system starts. |
| Cold Boot | to turn on or restart the comp by turning it off, waiting, then turning it on again. |
| Warm Boot | to restart the comp b using ctrl+atl+delete |
| Boot Disk | a write protected floppy disk the contains the compuers system &startup files |
| Boot Secter | portion of the disk that contains coded indtuctions for the operating system to start the comp |
| Safe mode | automaticly loads if the system crashes during startup |
| Scanner | a device to copy a physical image and turn it to a digital image |
| LPT1 | label used in MS-DOS assigned to Parrellel port |
| COM1 | a label used inmS-DO assaigned to serial port 1 |
| MTFB | MEan-Time between failures. this i the time normally given in hours, it predicts faliure of a device. |
| Drive Interface | the interface where dirves are connected internally. |
| LUN | <storage> (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID. |
| Display Adapter | video adapter. |
| VGA | Abbreviation of video graphics array, a graphics display system for PCs developed by IBM. VGA has become one of the de facto standards for PCs. In text mode, VGA systems provide a resolution of 720 by 400 pixels. In graphics mode, the resolution is either 640 by 480 (with 16 colors) or 320 by 200 (with 256 colors). The total palette of colors is 262,144. |
| AT Commands | Short for advanced technology, the AT is an IBM PC model introduced in 1984. It includes an Intel 80286 microprocessor, a 1.2MB floppy drive, and an 84-key AT keyboard. |
| Asycronous | Not synchronized; that is, not occurring at predetermined or regular intervals. The term asynchronous is usually used to describe communications in which data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream. For example, a telephone conversation is asynchronous because both parties can talk whenever they like. |
