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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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Format
To prepare a disk to receive information by organizing its surface into
tracks and sectors.
H
Hard Disk
A disk made of metal and permanently sealed into a drive cartridge. A
hard disk can store very large amounts of information.
HBA
Host Bus Adapter. An integrated circuit that supplies a bus connector to a
computer system. Also referred to as Host Adapter.
Host
The computer system in which a SCSI host adapter is installed. It uses
the SCSI host adapter to transfer information to and from devices
attached to the SCSI bus.
Host Adapter
A circuit board or integrated circuit that provides a SCSI bus connection to
the computer system.
I
Internal SCSI
Device
A SCSI device installed inside the computer cabinet. Internal SCSI
devices are connected in a continuous chain using an unshielded ribbon
cable.
IRQ
Interrupt Request Channel. A path through which a device can get the
immediate attention of the computer’s CPU. The PCI bus assigns an IRQ
path for each SCSI host adapter.
ISA
Industry Standard Architecture. A type of computer bus used in most
PCs. It allows devices to send and receive data 16-bits at a time.
K
Kbyte
Kilobyte. A measure of computer storage equal to 1024 bytes.
L
Link
To produce an executable program from compiled modules (programs,
routines, libraries) by merging the object code and resolving
interconnecting references.