Glossary of SCSI Terms - Quick List of SCSI Terminologies

Note: This is a reference list of terms defined in Paralan's SCSI Glossary. Click on a term to take you back to the definition.

A-Cable Arbitration Active Negation ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface Asynchronous (ASYNC) transfer B-Cable Bridge Bridge Controller Burst Rate Bus Mastering CAM - Common Access Method CCS - Common Command Set CDB - Command Descriptor Block Cables Cable lengths Command Queuing Command Connectors Converter CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check Cross Talk Device Differential SCSI DIFFSENSE Disconnect Domain Domain Validation Double-Speed SCSI Double Transitition Clocking Double Wide SCSI EPI - Enhanced Parallel Interface Expander Extender FCP - Fibre Channel Protocol FC-AL - Fibre Channel, Arbitrated Loop Fairness Fast SCSI Fast-20 Fast-40

Fast-80 Fast-160 SCSI Fast-Wide SCSI Fibre Channel Firewire FPT - Force Perfect Termination HBA - Abbreviation for Host Bus Adapter HVD - High Voltage Differential High Performance Serial Bus (IEEE 1394) Host Adapter Hot Plugging or Hot Swapping ID IEEE Information Units Initiator iSCSI iSCSI Bridge™ iSCSI to SCSI Bridge Isochronous transfer JBOD L-Cable LUN - Logical Unit Number LVD - Low Voltage Differential LVD/MSE - Low Voltage Differential/Multimode Single-ended Megatransfer Message Multi-threaded SCSI Multimode LVD Narrow SCSI Offset P-Cable Packetization Parity checking Q-Cable QAS RAID Reconnect RegeneratoR Repeater

SASI - Shugart Associates Systems Interface SCAM - SCSI Configured Auto-Magically SCA - Single Connector Attachment SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface SCSI-1 SCSI-2 SCSI-3 SCSI Switch SE - Abbreviation for single-ended SPI - The SCSI-3 Parallel Interface SSA Single-ended SCSI Skew SLOW SCSI Stub Synchronous (SYNC) transfer Tagged Command Queuing Target Terminator (Terminations) Term power Training pattern Ultra 320 Ultra SCSI Ultra2 SCSI Ultra3 SCSI Ultra4 SCSI Ultra 160 Universal LVD Universal SCSI VHDCI WideSCSI Write Blocker X3T10