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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)