Adaptec ACB-5500 User Manual page 15

51/4" winchester disk controller scsi to st506
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The ACB-5500 reduces selection overhead by allowing the host
to link commands.
Once a command is completed, the con-
troller will immediately request and execute the next linked
command.
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The ACB-5500 reduces system overhead by queuing commands to
the controller from different hosts.
As commands are com-
pleted, the next queued command will be executed.
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The ACB-5500 provides great operating system flexibility by
offering sector lengths of 256,
512, or 1024 bytes.
The
sector length is programmed at format time.
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The ACB-5500 supports direct and relative addressing of
logical blocks.
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The ACB-5500 guarantees excellent data integrity by utilizing
a 32-bit error correction code on both the data and
1.0.
fields, SCSI bus parity checking and generation, and data
buffer parity checking.
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