Ó²Å̹«Ë¾ÄÚ²¿Ê¹ÓõÄÓ¢ÎÄËõд

Western Digital Corporation
ACRONYMS

Last Update:  May 30, 2001

1394 IEEE Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus
ABA Absolute Block Address MSB(CYL HI) MB(CYL LO) LSB(SEC #)
ABCD Burst  Servo info embedded in data tracks
AC Abort Command
AFT
AFXMT Advanced Architecture Surface Formatter
Ambient Room Air Temperature ¡À3¡ã C.
API AT PCI Interface card
API Application Program Interface
ARCO Advanced Read Channel Optimization
ASCO Advanced Servo Channel Optimization
ASPT Advanced Single Plug Tester (Advanced Single Plug backend)
AST Application Specific Test, embedded SW running on SDC card
ATA AT Attachment
Bad Block RBBlist marks a block as bad
BBD Bad Block detected
BPI Bits per inch
BOM Bill Of Materials
BUE
Calibrate Table of mag field strength vs.head location across full stroke
CC Cell Controller, system application used to monitor drive¡¯s test inside SPT
CCC Cell Controller Configuration
CCS Channel Characterization Station
CEU Command Execution Unit
CHS Cylinder, Head, Sector
CORR Data was Corrected
CIA Command Index Array
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing, a type of data collection system
Cluster Number of cylinders a head crosses before doing a head switch
CPM Customer program metrics
CPRT
CSD Cache Segment Descriptor
DAM Data Address Mark
DAMNF Data Address Mark Not Found
DASP Drive Active/Slave Present
DCM Drive Configuration Matrix
DCT Drive Configuration Table (RAM image of config sector)
DFP Drive failure protection
DMA Direct memory access
DMS Document Management System
DPPM Defective parts per million?
DRDY Drive not Ready error
DRM Drive Reliability Monitor
DRQ IDE signal
DSC Drive Seek Complete error
DSFIS Drive Shop Floor Interface System
DST Drive Self Test
DTR Data transfer rate
DUT Drive Under Test
DWF Drive Write Fault
DVT Drive Validation Test
DX Disk Controller
EAR Engineering Action Request
EB Engineering Bulletin
EC
ECC Error Correction Code
ECO Engineering Change Order
EFT
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Interface
EL Event Log
EPM Engineering program management
EPU Error Processing Unit
ERR Error bit in status
EVT Engineering Verification Testing
FA
FCI Flux changes per inch
FCS Final Configuration Station
FDP Firmware Development Process
FIMMS Factory Integrated Manufacturing Management System, a type of data collection system
FIN
FIT Functional Integrity Test
FMEA
FPC Fixture Personality Card
FQA Final Quality Audit
FQA Final Quality Assurance
FQT
FROT Field Reliability Ongoing Test
FSM Frame Sync Mark
FTA
FTC Controller Firmware Engineering Verification Test
FTS Final Test Station/System
FW Firmware
G list Grown defect list (set to empty by FTS)
GRR
HALT Highly Accelerated Test
HAM Host automation Module
HDA Head Disk Assembly (sans PCBA)
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDS High Density Servo
HIB
HOST SW Application used to configure and dispatch files for CC and AST use
HSDT Hard Sector Descriptor Table
HSSM Hard Sector State Machine
HVM
IBI Intelligent Burn IN
IBI Logs
ID Inner Diameter
IDC Intelligent Drive Controller ( 1 Micro Processor Per Slot )
IDE Integrated drive Electronics
IDM Intelligent defect Margining (scratch handling)