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| IDE | A method of disk drive manufacturing that albeates all the reqired controller circuity in the drive itself |
| EIED | Allows for two IDE channels that can each supports two devices |
| ATA | More commonly know as IDE the "AT" refers to the IBM-AT cooputer where this interface was first used |
| ATA-33 | An extension to the ATA interface (IDE) that will effectively double the top data transfer speed up to 33 mbps. Also Known as Ultra-IDE |
| SCSI | A standard data pathway used mostly for hard drives and CD-ROMdrives but also a common interface for soccumer and sometimes printers |
| millisecond | one thousandth of a second.usually used to measure the access speed of hard drives |
| System Hang | When a program fails its usually has an opportuntity to display an error or diagnostic message |
| POST | Power-on self test a group of ROM BIOS diagnostic test that are pefored on the system each time it is powered-up |
| Cold Boot | to turn on a computer or to restart computer by turning itoff waiting a few seconds and turning it on again |
| Warm Boot | to restart (reset) a computer by pressing CTRL + ALT+DELETE |
| Boot Disk | A Write-protection floppy disk that contains the computer system and stautues-files |
| Boot Sector | A portion of a disk that contains the code instruction for the operating system to start the computer |
| Safe mode | this is a windows 95 mode that is automatically loaded if windoms 95 crashes during boot up you can access safe mode anytime if you press the F8 key when the screen says "loading windows 95." |
| scanner | A device used to copy an image from a physicalsourcessuch as a photograph in to a computer |
| LPT1 | the label used in Ms-Dos assigned to paralled port1 |
| COM1 | The label used in MS-DOS assigned to serial Port 1 |
| MTBF | Mean time between failures this is a times normally given innores that predicts the failures of a devices |
| Drive Interface | A collection of electrial and logical connections betweena hard drive and a PC |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number is a unique identifier for subdevices assigned to a singal SCSI ID |
