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Compaq ProLiant 5000 Servers Reference Guide
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Cylinders
A unit of storage on a hard drive consisting of the set
of tracks that occupy the same location.
Data Guarding
See RAID 4.
Data Striping
Distributes data files across a series of hard drives.
The data is distributed in sector blocks according to
the operating system requirements.
Diagnostics Tools
Tools used to help resolve installation and
configuration problems. Some of the tools supplied
by Compaq are: Automatic Server Recovery-2,
Server Health Logs, Inspect and Test Utilities, Drive
Array Advanced Diagnostics, and the System
Configuration History Files.
Diagnostics Utility
A test program designed to detect and identify
possible computer malfunctions. You can access the
Diagnostics Utility at any time if you loaded it into
the system partition created on your hard drive.
DIMM
Dual Inline Memory Module. Surface-mounted
memory chips aligned on a plug-in board.
Distributed Data
Guarding
See RAID 5.