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Chapter 5
ULTRA SCSI I/O SUBSYSTEM
Note: For details on how to perform the SCSI driver installation, refer to
the “ Adaptec
®
7800 Family Manager Set User’ s Guide” included on the
Installation CD-ROM that comes with your Motherboard. You may also
obtain additional SCSI driver information by visiting Adaptec
®
’ s Web
site at: http://www.adaptec.com
Follow the instructions in Adaptec’ s SCSI driver installation guide to
install the SCSI driver specific to your system:
5-1 INTRODUCTION TO ULTRA-SCSI
Your new SYD6IBA high-performance Motherboard is equipped
with the onboard Adaptec
®
AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter for
your high bandwidth applications, providing data transfer rates of up
to 40 Mbytes per second. The Ultra-wide SCSI is an input/output
bus interface that provides a powerful multitasking interface
between your computer’ s PCI bus and your SCSI devices.
With SCSI, you can connect a variety of devices on your computer
(Hard/Floppy Disk Drives, CD-ROM Drives, Scanners, Tape Drives,
Removable Media Drives, etc.) in a daisy-chain topology to a
common host adapter. Daisy-chaining SCSI devices allows them to
communicate with each other by sending commands and data via
the SCSI bus.
The AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI provides maximum data transfer rates of
20 Mbytes/sec in the narrow 8-bit mode (Fast SCSI) and 40
Mbytes/sec in the wide 16-bit mode (Ultra-Wide SCSI).
l Microsoft Windows NT
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l Microsoft Windows
®
95
l Novell NetWare
l IBM OS/2
l SCO UNIX
l SCO UnixWare
