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Scsi adapter cards, Adaptec 29160 scsi pci adapter card, Figure51 adaptec scsi card – HP A7818-IE002 User Manual

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Hardware Components

PCI Cards

Chapter 5

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SCSI Adapter Cards

Adaptec 29160 SCSI PCI Adapter Card.. Your workstation has an Ultra 160/m SCSI
card. The Adaptec SCSI card has a system bus rate of 533MB/sec, a SCSI data transfer
rate of 160MB/sec, and the capability to support as many as 15 peripheral devices.

The Adaptec SCSI card can connect to Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI devices (for
example, Ultra2 and Ultra 160/m) and Single-Ended (SE) SCSI devices (for example,
Ultra SCSI, Fast SCSI, SCSI-1). Examples of SE devices include DAT drives, scanners,
and older hard disk drives.

Figure 5-1

Adaptec SCSI Card

The following is a description of connectors 1 through 4.

Connector 1: 68-pin external connector for LVD SCSI devices

Connector 2: 68-pin internal connector for LVD SCSI devices

Connector 3: 68-pin internal connector for wide SE SCSI devices

Connector 4: 50-pin internal connector for narrow SE SCSI devices

Although SE SCSI devices work when you attach them to connector 1 or 2, it limits all
devices to SE mode. For example, this limitation would result in the Ultra 160/m hard
disk drive performance being limited from 160MB/sec to 40MB/sec. Therefore, you
should connect only LVD SCSI devices to connectors 1 and 2.

Connector 2

Connector 3

Connector 4

Connector 1