| A | B |
|---|
| IDE | intergrated drive electronics |
| EIDE | allows for two ide channels that can each support two devices |
| ATA | the at refers to the ibm-at computer where this interface was first used |
| ATA-33 | an extention to the ata interface that will effectivly double the top data transfer speed up to 33 mbps. |
| SCSI | small computer standard interface |
| millisecound | one thousandth of a secound. used for calc speed of hard drive |
| system hang | when a program fails, displays a diagonostic message error |
| post | power on self test |
| cold boot | to turn on the computer by turing it off, waiting a few secounds, then turing it back on |
| warm boot | to restart a computer by pressing ctrl alt delet |
| Boot disk | a write protected floppy disk that contains the computers system start up info |
| boot sector | a portion of a disk that contains the code instructions for the operating system |
| safe mode | this is a mode of windows, used to diag. problems in systems boot sequence |
| scanner | a device used to transfer an image to your hard disk |
| LPT1 | the lable asigned in MS-DOS assigned to the parralel port |
| COM1 | the label used in MS-DOS assigned to serial port 1 |
| MTBF | mean time between failures |
| drive interface | a coolection of electrical and logical connections between a hard drive and a pc |
| display adapter | a pc extention board that converts the images created in the computer to the electronic signals required by the monitor |
| VGA | VIDEO GRAPHICS ARRAY |
| AT commands | the modem command set developed by the hayes company for use on its modems |
| Asynchronous | a bit synchronization transmission technique that uses start and stop bits |
