Technical data
Introduction
1-2 DiamondMax 10 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB Serial ATA
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
• Appendix A – Breaking the 137-Gigabyte Storage Barrier
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 means square
• Kfci thousands of flux changes per inch
•Hz hertz
•KB kilobytes
• 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)