Adaptec 2904 SCSI Card AVA2904ROHSKIT Folheto

AVA

™

-2904/AVA-2904E

The Adaptec

®

AVA-2904 host adapters

are the optimal choice for SCSI periph-
erals such as CD-Recordable drives,
removable drives, DVDs, scanners and
magneto-optical drives.

Based on the industry-standard
Adaptec AHA-2940 architecture, 
the AVA-2904 family of adapters
provides the superior compatibility
Adaptec is known for, resulting in
fewer technical support calls and
lower costs. In fact, these PCI-to-SCSI
host adapters deliver the lowest total
cost solution to the OEM.

Unmatched Compatibility
Adaptec has tested the AVA-2904
family with hundreds of systems,
peripherals and software products. 
As the industry leader for SCSI host
adapters, Adaptec enjoys extensive
testing in the labs of virtually every
SCSI peripheral vendor and PC 
OEM. As a result, the AVA-2904 host
adapters deliver unmatched compati-
bility and painless installation.

Support for the AVA-2904 family
is built into Windows

®

95 and

Windows NT

®

. Support for 

Windows

®

3.1 and DOS is 

available through drivers.

Simple Installation
With features such as Plug-and-
Play and SCAM (SCSI Configured
Automatically), the AVA-2904 family
of host adapters are designed with
everything needed for simple system
installation and easy peripheral 
attachment. 

Built in SCSI Performance
Advanced SCSI features such as
scatter/gather, disconnect/reconnect
and tagged command queuing, free
the CPU to handle multitasking I/O
more efficiently. The AVA-2904/2904E
combines fast throughput with mini-
mal demands on the CPU to speed the
handling of large data formats such as
video and 3-D images.

Low CPU Overhead
The AVA-2904/2904E adapters are
designed to improve overall system
performance. Bus Mastering DMA
makes the AVA-2904/2904E ideal for
multitasking environments by reliev-
ing the CPU from the overhead of I/O
processing. The onboard, RISC-based,
PhaseEngine

®

quickly processes the

SCSI commands decreasing the load
on the host system CPU.

Proven Quality and Reliability
The AVA-2904/2904E host adapters 
have undergone thorough testing in
Adaptec’s Product Test Laboratory.
Each board design is subjected to
thousands of hours of functional,
compatibility, and environmental 
tests to ensure the highest quality and
reliability. Our commitment to quality
has earned Adaptec’s manufacturing
facility ISO-9002 certification.

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