Avago Technologies LSI20160 - Manual (Page 261)

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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations A-9
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System BIOS Controls the low level POST (Power-On Self-Test), and basic operation of
the CPU and computer system.
T
Tape Drive A storage device designed to back up data from another storage device
onto magnetic tape at a high rate of speed. Data is stored sequentially (no
random access).
U
Ultra SCSI A standard for SCSI data transfers. It allows a transfer rate of up to
20 Mbytes/s over an 8-bit SCSI bus and up to 40 Mbytes/s over a 16-bit
SCSI bus. STA (SCSI Trade Association) supports using the term “Ultra
SCSI” over the term “Fast-20.”
Ultra2 SCSI A standard for SCSI data transfers. It allows a transfer rate of up to
80 Mbytes/s over a 16-bit SCSI bus. STA (SCSI Trade Association)
supports using the term “Ultra2 SCSI” over the term “Fast-40.”
V
Virtual Memory Space on a hard disk that can be used as if it were RAM.
W
Wide SCSI A SCSI-2 feature allowing 16 or 32-bit transfers on the SCSI bus. This
dramatically increases the transfer rate over the standard 8-bit SCSI bus.
Word A two byte (or 16-bit) unit of information.
WORM Write Once Read Many. An optical storage device, like CD-ROM, used to
permanently store data.