Maxtor QUICKVIEW 300 - Manual (Page 11)

Introduction
1-2 Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA
1.3 MANUAL ORGANIZATION
This manual is organized into the following chapters:
• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – General Description
• Chapter 3 – Installation
• Chapter 4 – Product Specifications
• Chapter 5 – ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
• Chapter 6 – Service and Support
1.4 TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS
In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for
many of the terms used in this manual. In addition, the following
abbreviations are used in this manual:
• ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
• ATA advanced technology attachment
• Bels sound power units
• bpi bits per inch
• DA Double Amplitude(represents pk-pk shaker
displacement)
• dB decibels
• dBA decibels, A weighted
• DPS Data Protection System
• ECC error correcting code
• G rms G root mean square
• Hz
hertz
• KB kilobytes
• Kfci thousands of flux changes per inch
• LSB least significant bit
• mA milliamperes
• MB
megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring
to disk transfer rates or storage capacities and
1,048,576 bytes in all other cases)
• Mb/s megabits per second