Installation and User's Guide Network Adapter

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I/O Input/Output
ISA Industry Standard Architecture Older PC
Standard I/O
bus
LUN Logical Unit Number
LVD Low Voltage Differential
Ultra2 SCSI
Standard
NIC Network Interface Card, e.g. ITI-8241C-S
Packet
Unit of information packaged in a
predetermined structure for communications
using Ethernet protocols.
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Industry
Standard Bus
POST Power On Self Test
RJ-45 The 8-conductor version of an RJ-11
(telephone, but wider).
Router
Component which receives and transmits
and forwards packets to their destinations
via the shortest route possible.
SCAM SCSI Configured AutoMatically Most SCSI
devices do not
yet support
SCAM
SCSI Small Computer Storage Interconnect
SE Single Ended
Ultra SCSI
Standard
Switch Hardware that routes packets across a
network.
Ultra
SCSI
SCSI clocked at 20 MHz 20 Mbytes/sec
8-bit,
40 Mbytes/sec
16-bit
Ultra2
SCSI
SCSI clocked at 40 MHz
40 Mbytes/sec
8-bit,
80 Mbytes/sec
16-bit
UTP Unshielded twisted pair