EQC
Equipment check.
equipment check
An asynchronous indication of a malfunction.
Error log
A data set or file in a product or system where error information is stored for later access.
ESD
Electrostatic discharge.
F
fault symptom code (FSC)
A hexadecimal code that is generated by the drive or the control unit microcode in response to a detected subsystem error.
FC
Feature code, or Fibre Channel.
FCC
Federal communications commission.
FE
Field engineer, customer engineer, or service representative.
Fibre Channel
A high-speed networking technology primarily used for transmitting data among data centers, computer servers, switches and storage at data rates of up to 128
Gbps. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data centers.
fiducial
A target that is used for teaching a physical location to a robot.
field replaceable unit (FRU)
An assembly that is replaced in its entirety when any one of its components fails.
file
A named set of records that are stored or processed as a unit. Also referred to as a dataset.
file protection
The processes and procedures that are established in an information system that are designed to inhibit unauthorized access to, contamination of, or deletion of a
file.
file transfer protocol (FTP)
In the Internet suite of protocols, an application layer protocol that uses TCP and Telnet services to transfer bulk-data files between machines or hosts.
firmware
Proprietary code that is delivered as microcode as part of an operating system. Firmware is more efficient than software loaded from an alterable medium and more
adaptable to change than pure hardware circuitry. An example of firmware is the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) in read-only memory (ROM) on a PC
motherboard.
FLASH EEPROM
An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) that can be updated.
FMR
Field microcode replacement.
format
The arrangement or layout of data on a data medium.
formatter
Part of a magnetic tape subsystem that completes data conversion, speed matching, encoding, first-level error recovery, and interfaces to one or more tape drives.
FP
File protect.
frayed
Damaged as if by an abrasive substance.
FRU
Field replaceable unit.
FSC
Fault symptom code.
FSI
Fault symptom index.
functional microcode
Microcode that is resident in the machine during normal customer operation.
G
g
Gram.
GB
gigabyte.
GBIC
Gigabit Interface Converter.
Gbi
gigabit
Generation 1
The informal name for the IBM® Ultrium 1 Tape Drive, which is the first generation of the Ultrium tape drive. The Generation 1 drive has a native storage capacity of
up to 100 GB per cartridge and a native sustained data transfer rate of 15 MB per second.
Generation 2
The informal name for the second-generation version of the IBM Ultrium Tape Drive. The Generation 2 drive has a native storage capacity of up to 200 GB per
cartridge and a native sustained data transfer rate of 35 MB per second.
Generation 3
The informal name for the third-generation version of the IBM Ultrium Tape Drive. The Generation 3 drive has a native storage capacity of up to 400 GB per
cartridge and a native sustained data transfer rate of 135 MB per second.
Generation 4
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