| A | B |
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| IDE | A method of disk drive manfucaturing that allocates all the required controller circutery in the drive it's self |
| Enhanced IDE | Allows for 2 IDE channels that can each support 2 devices |
| AT Attachment | More commenly known as IDE the "At" refers to the IBM-At where it first was introduced |
| ATA-33 | An extension to the ATA interface [IDE] that will doubble the top datta transfered |
| SCSI | A standard data pathway used mostly for heard drives and Cd rom interfaces |
| Milisecond | 1 thousaandth of a second usally used to measure the acess speed of hearddrives |
| System Hang | When a program failes it usally has an apportunity to display a n error message |
| POST | a group of ROMM, bios, Diognasticthat test that is performed each power up |
| Cold boot | To turn on a comp. or to restart a comp. by turning it off e=wating a few sec. then turning it back on |
| Warm boot | To restart a comp. by pressing Ctrl.+Alt+Delete. |
| Boot disk | A write protected floppy disk that contains the comp. sys. and startup files |
| Boot Sector | A portion of a disk that contains the comp. opperating sys. to start up the comp. |
| Safe Mode | This is a windows 95 mode if win. crashes during boot up |
| Scanner | A device used to coppy an image into a comp. |
| LPT1 | The label used in MS-Dos assigned to parallel port1 |
| COM1 | The label used in MS-Dos assigned to parallel port1 |
| MTFB | This is normally given with in hours that predicts the falure of a device |
| LUN | is a unique identifer for subdevices assigned to a single SCSI ID |
