-Support Single ended, LVD(Low Voltage Differential)
-Allow greater device connectivity and longer cable length
-Support a long-term performance migration path
Supports variable block size and scatter/gather data transfers
Supports 64-bit word data bursts with variable burst lengths
Performs zero wait-state bus master data bursts faster than 110 MB/s (@ 33MHz)
Performs Multi-Mode SCSI bus transfers in either Single-Ended or LVD: Single-Ended Mode: Fast SCSI (8 bit)
-5 MB/s Asynchronous (10 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
-10 MB/s Synchronous (20 MB/s with UltraSCSI) Fast and Wide SCSI (16 bit)
-10 MB/s Asynchronous (20 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
-20 MB/s Synchronous (40 MB/s with UltraSCSI) LVD Mode: Wide Ultra2 SCSI (16 bit)
-80 MB/s Synchronous
Provides Serial EEPROM interface to keep the data of SCSI bus configuration
Provide Flash EEPROM, make the SCSI BIOS upgradeable
Minimizes SCSI I/O start latency
Performs complex bus sequences without interrupts, including restore data pointers
Reduces ISR overhead through a unique interrupt status reporting method
Supports one External (Wide) and three Internal (Wide) Connectors
Easily adapted to the Advanced SCSI Protocol Interface (ASPI) or Common Access Method (CAM), with SDMS software
Supports MO in BIOS & Driver for 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per sector
Provides ASPI manager for Dos, Windows 3.1X, NT and NetWare for third party
applications
Supported by SYMBIOS SCSI Device Management System (SDMS) Driver for:
DOS_Windows, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 3.5x & 4.0, NetWare 3.x & 4.x, OS2,
SCO Unix, UnixWare, FreeBSD, Solaris 2.6
Components
Base on SYMBIOS 53C896 Ultra-2 PCI-SCSI I/O processor