
Introduction
1-2 Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB AT
1.3 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
• bpi bits per inch
• DA Double Amplitude(represents pk-pk shaker
displacement)
• dB decibels
• dBA decibels, A weighted
• DPS Data Protection System
• SPS Shock Protection System
• ECC Error Correcting Code
• 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)
• Mb/s Megabits per second
• MB/s Megabytes per second
•MHz Megahertz
• ms milliseconds
• MSB Most Significant Bit
• mV millivolts
• ns nanoseconds
• SATA Serial ATA Interface
• tpi tracks per inch
• µs microseconds
•V Volts
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