General Micro Systems Puts Mini DDrive II Behind The Wheel.General Micro Systems announced the Mini DDrive II, the first VMEbus mass storage card to feature two IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. hard drives and an LS-120 super floppy (1) A high-capacity floppy disk. The Zip disk could be considered a super floppy. In the early 1990s, the Floptical was the super floppy drive for a while, but never caught on. See Zip disk. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk introduced by IBM that held 2.88MB. . The new card allows integrators to add mirrored hard disks and super floppy mass storage to their VMEbus systems by eliminating the need to bolt the drives to the chassis and provide cabling. The field-replaceable card also makes it easy for field service personnel to repair the drives, install drives, and upgrade the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and application code. The storage card enhances security by making it practical for operators to remove the hard drives from the system on a daily basis. The card occupies a single 6U VMEbus slot and can be configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: with either two IDE drives and a standard 3.5-inch floppy, or one IDE drive and an LS120 Super Floppy. Each 2.5-inch IDE drive provides a capacity of up to 9.2GB and is available with factory pre-installed operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The 2.5-inch drives, each just 10mm high, can withstand shock and vibration of up to 100Gs. The new product is available immediately, is equipped with two 9.2GB IDE drives, and costs less than $1,000 in single-piece quantity. |
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