Maxtor 300 Computer Drive User Manual


 
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