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| IDE | integrated drive electronics. a method of drive manufacturing that allocates all the required controller circuitry in the drive itself. |
| enhanced ide | allows for two ide channels that can support two devices |
| ata | more commonly known as ide, the at refers to the ibm at computer |
| ata 33 | an extension to the ata interface that will efectively double the top data transfer speed up to 33 mbps. also known as ultra ide |
| small computer standard interface (SCSI) | a standard data pathway used mostly fo hard drives and cd rom drives but also common interface for scanners and printers |
| millisecond | one thousandth of a second. usually used to measure the access speed of hard drives |
| system hang | when program fails, it usually has an opportunity to display an error or diagnostic message. if the entire system fails, such aa message wiill not appear. |
| POST | power on self test. a grop of rom bios diagnostic tests that are performed on the system each time it is powered up. |
| cold boot | turn on a computer, or restart a computer by turning it off, waiting for a few seconds and turning it on again. |
| warm boot | to restart a computer by pressing control, alt and delete |
| boot disk | a write protected disk that contains the computer's system startup files |
| boot sector | a portion of a disk that contains the coded instructions for operating system to start the computer |
| safe mode | win 95 mode that is automatically loaded if win 95 crashes during boot up. can be accessed if you press the f8 key when the screen says "Loading win 95" |
| scanner | a device used to copy an image froma physical source to a computer |
| lpt1 | the label used in msdos assigned to parallel port 1 |
| com1 | the label used in msdos assigned to serial port 1 |
| mtbf | mean time between failures. this is a time normally given in hours predicts the failure of a device. |
| drive adapter | adapter for the the drives developed by me for me. |
| lun | liquid underwear nun. a nun that wears liquid underwear around the house. |
| display adapter | a pc expansion board that converst image3s created on the computer to the electronic signals required by the monitor |
| vga | stands for video graphics arra. the minimum for pc video display, which originated wih ibm's ps2 models in 87 |
| at commands | the modem command set developed by hayes company for use on it smodems and now used on most modems |
| asynchronous | a bit synchronization transmission technique that uses start stop bits |
