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6 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N Users Guide
'2&
Abbreviation for Department of Commu-
nications (in Canada).
GSL
Abbreviation for dots per inch.
'306
Abbreviation for Display Power Manage-
ment Signaling. A standard developed by
the Video Electronics Standards Associa-
tion that defines the hardware signals
sent by a video controller to activate pow-
er management states in a video display
or monitor. A monitor is said to be DPMS-
compliant when it is designed to enter a
power management state after receiving
the appropriate signal from a computers
video controller.
'5$&
Acronym for Dell Remote Assistant Card.
'5$0
Abbreviation for dynamic random-access
memory. A computers RAM is usually
made up entirely of DRAM chips. Be-
cause DRAM chips cannot store an
electrical charge indefinitely, your com-
puter continually refreshes each DRAM
chip in the computer.
GULYHW\SHQXPEHU
Your computer can recognize a number of
specific hard-disk drives. Each is assigned
a drive-type number that is stored in
NVRAM. The hard-disk drive(s) specified
in your computers System Setup pro-
gram must match the actual drive(s)
installed in the computer. The System
Setup program also allows you to specify
physical parameters (cylinders, heads,
write precomp, landing zone, and capaci-
ty) for drives not included in the table of
drive types stored in NVRAM.
'6''
Abbreviation for double-sided/double-
density.
'6+'
Abbreviation for double-sided/high-
density.
'7(
Abbreviation for data terminal equipment.
Any device (such as a computer system)
that can send data in digital form by
means of a cable or communications line.
The DTE is connected to the cable or
communications line through a data com-
munications equipment (DCE) device,
such as a modem.
(&&
Abbreviation for error checking and
correction.
(&3
Abbreviation for Extended Capabilities
Port.
('2
Abbreviation for extended-data output. A
type of RAM chip that holds data on the
chips output data lines for a longer period
of time than fast-page mode RAM chips.
The EDO RAM chips are also faster than
fast-page mode RAM chips.
((3520
Acronym for electrically erasable pro-
grammable read-only memory.
(*$
Abbreviation for enhanced graphics
adapter.
(,6$
Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard
Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus de-
sign. The expansion-card connectors in an
EISA computer are also compatible with
8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.
To avoid a configuration conflict when in-
stalling an EISA expansion card, you must
use the EISA Configuration Utility. This
utility allows you to specify which expan-
sion slot contains the card and obtains
information about the cards required sys-
tem resources from a corresponding EISA
configuration file.
(0&
Abbreviation for Electromagnetic
Compatibility.