Glossary of Terms


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Hard error
Areas in the data on the disk that are damaged and unrecoverable. Reassigning hard errors will inform the SCSI drive to place data elsewhere when that particular block is requested.

High Sierra format
An early version of the ISO/9660 format. See ISO/9660.

Initialize
Performs a low level format, followed by a partition, followed by a high level format. These three steps are performed by the Format command.

ISO
International Standards Organization.

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