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Acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. A technology that allows hard-disk drives to report errors and failures to the system BIOS, which then displays an error message on the screen. To take advantage of this technology, you must have a SMART-compliant hard-disk drive and the proper support in the system BIOS. Sync negotiation is a SCSI feature that allows the host adapter and its attached SCSI devices to transfer data in synchronous mode. Synchronous data transfer is faster than asynchronous data transfer. The rules that dictate how you must type a command or instruction so that the computer will understand it. Abbreviation for system management bus. Abbreviation for symmetric multiprocessing. Abbreviation for Simple Network Management Protocol. In composite drivers with two or more physical drives, the drive array subsystem uses a method of data storage called striping. With this method, data is divided into a series of pieces called blocks and each data block is stored on a different physical drive. When each drive contains a block of data, the process starts over with the first physical drive. When the size of the data block is carefully selected, the chance that the information needed can be read from or written to multiple physical drives at once is increased, greatly increasing the performance of the composite drive. See also block, block size, and RAID. Abbreviation for static random-access memory. Because SRAM chips do not require continual refreshing, they are substantially faster than DRAM chips. SRAM is used mostly for external cache memory. As the main circuit board, the system board usually contains most of your computer's integral components, such as the following: Microprocessor RAM Expansion-card connectors Controllers for standard peripheral devices such as the keyboard Various ROM chips Frequently used synonyms for system board are motherboard and logic board. System diskette is a synonym for bootable diskette. System memory is a synonym for RAM. System Setup program options allow you to configure your computer's hardware. Some options in the System Setup program require that you reboot the computer to effect a hardwareconfiguration change. Because the System Setup program is stored in NVRAM, any options that you set remain in effect until you change them again. Abbreviation for super video graphics array. See also VGA. See parameter. When you start Windows, it consults the system.ini file to determine a variety of options for the Windows operating environment. Among other things, the system.ini file records which video, mouse, 14 Dell PowerEdge 4300 Systems User's Guide

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Dell PowerEdge 4300 Systems User’s Guide
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Acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology. A technology that
allows hard-disk drives to report errors
and failures to the system BIOS, which
then displays an error message on the
screen. To take advantage of this technol-
ogy, you must have a SMART-compliant
hard-disk drive and the proper support in
the system BIOS.
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Abbreviation for system management
bus.
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Abbreviation for symmetric
multiprocessing.
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Abbreviation for Simple Network Man-
agement Protocol.
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In composite drivers with two or more
physical drives, the drive array subsystem
uses a method of data storage called strip-
ing. With this method, data is divided into
a series of pieces called blocks and each
data block is stored on a different physical
drive. When each drive contains a block
of data, the process starts over with the
first physical drive. When the size of the
data block is carefully selected, the
chance that the information needed can
be read from or written to multiple physi-
cal drives at once is increased, greatly
increasing the performance of the com-
posite drive. See also
block
,
block size
,
and
RAID
.
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Abbreviation for static random-access
memory. Because SRAM chips do not
require continual refreshing, they are sub-
stantially faster than DRAM chips. SRAM
is used mostly for external cache
memory.
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array. See also
VGA
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Sync negotiation is a SCSI feature that
allows the host adapter and its attached
SCSI devices to transfer data in synchro-
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faster than asynchronous data transfer.
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The rules that dictate how you must type
a command or instruction so that the com-
puter will understand it.
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As the main circuit board, the system
board usually contains most of your com-
puter’s integral components, such as the
following:
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Microprocessor
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RAM
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Expansion-card connectors
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Controllers for standard peripheral
devices such as the keyboard
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Frequently used synonyms for system
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motherboard
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logic board
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System diskette is a synonym for
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System Setup program options allow you
to configure your computer’s hardware.
Some options in the System Setup
program require that you reboot the
computer to effect a hardware-
configuration change. Because the Sys-
tem Setup program is stored in NVRAM,
any options that you set remain in effect
until you change them again.
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When you start Windows, it consults the
system.ini
file to determine a variety of
options for the Windows operating
environment. Among other things, the
system.ini
file records which video, mouse,