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XT height board. This allows use in both XT and AT height machines, thus giving
you flexibility in choosing your machine's enclosure.
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High component integration using Adaptec ICs. Adaptec is committed to IC
development in order to integrate and to reduce the price of both boards and ICs.
Adaptec's ICs are used in all Adaptec boards and in most integrated drives on the
market; therefore, Adaptec components are proven in reliability and in high volume
production.
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Use of surface mount technology. Adaptec is committed to the leading edge of
technology. Surface Mount Technology allows greater functionality in smaller
spaces, as well as higher reliability and low power.
The ACB-2322D has these additional features:
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Support of two IBM AT-type floppy disk drives. Compatible with the most popular
IBM floppy capacities. This includes 360 KB and 1.2 MB floppy capacities for 5
1/4" floppy compatibility. Also supports 3 1/2" floppies that use the 5 1/4" floppy
drive interface.
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Floppy controller can be disabled, for use with systems that have a motherboard
floppy controller.
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Analog floppy data separator. This gives much higher data integrity than digital
data separators. Thus floppy data reliability and data retrieve ability are improved
over previous AT floppy controllers.
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Format compatibility with the ACB-2320B/2322B, EXCEPT that the ACB-
2320D/2322D does not support soft sectored drives.
1.5 Hardware and Software Requirements
In order to install an Adaptec ACB-232XD into an IBM PC AT-compatible computer, the
following are required:
1. IBM PC AT-compatible computer.
2. PC or MS-DOS Version 3.0 or higher. System and supplemental program
diskettes.
The ACB-232XD will also run with non-DOS operating systems and networks.
Please refer to the appendix for operation with Interactive System Unix V/386,
SCO Xenix, Novell NetWare, OS/2 and other operating systems.
3. A diagnostic program diskette that allows the PC AT-compatible computer's
configuration RAM to be set up (such as the diagnostics diskette IBM supplies with
its PC ATs.)
4. Adaptec ACB-2322D hard disk and floppy disk controller, or Adaptec ACB-2320D
hard disk controller for systems that include a floppy controller.
5. An ESDI Winchester disk drive.
6. 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" floppy disk drive.
7. 20- and 34-pin flat or twisted ribbon cables for hard disk.
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