secondary port - Term Description

What is: secondary port

Description:
A secondary IDE interface that is almost identical to a primary IDE interface except that it uses a different interrupt and I/O address to avoid conflicts with the primary interface. A secondary port allows connecting another ribbon cable with two more ATA devices, such as a hard disk, ATAPI CD-ROM or ATAPI tape, for a total of four.

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Category: S


S-AIT (Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape)	SAN (storage area network)	SANmark
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA)	SBus	scheduled backup
SCSI	secondary port	sector
Serial ATA	serial attached SCSI	server
serverless backup	SFP (small form-factor pluggable)	SGNP (secure grid naming protocol)
Shortcuts	SLR	SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association)
soft sector	SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture)	SPC (Storage Performance Council)
SRAM (static random access memory)	SRM (storage resource management)	SSD (solid state disk)
SSF (Supported Solutions Forum)	SSP (storage service provider)	storage capacity
storage density	storage location	Storage Medium
Strings	SuperDLT	Super DLTtape
Syntax	system backup