HP (Hewlett-Packard) A2969A Network Card User Manual


 
light emltting diode
A smaU light emitting device used to provide status information.
Mbitdsec
Megabits per second (l,OOO,OOO bits per second).
medium, media
The tmnsmission connection between nodes. Most current I&k use cables (fiberoptic or
copper), although radio and other broadcast media are possible.
ODE
Off-lie Diagnostic EJnvironment. A distributed diagnostic execution environment
launched from ISL.
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface, often pronounced “skuzzy”.
SCSI address
The binary representation of the unique address (0 to 15) assigned to each device and
adapter on the SCSI bus. For bus arbitration the order of priority with highest first is: 7,6,
5,4,3,2,1,0, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10,9,8. SCSI addresses are typicahy assigned during
installation. The SCSI adapter is typically assigned address “7”.
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