Can I connect Ultra 2 SCSI (LVD) drives in any PC or a wintel computer ?
Yes, PC s with a PCI bus on their motherboards can take advantage of Ultra 2 SCSI (LVD) drives. You need a PC Ultra 2 SCSI controller to connect the drive. The data Xfer rate of a disk drive is one important parameter in the overall storage subsystem s performance, but the data bus (50 Mhz, 66 Mhz, 100 Mhz), carries the data from the drive to the CPU. Microprocessor clock speed , SCSI controller support of a particular drive interface, Ultra SCSI, Ultra 2 SCSI etc. are critical factors in integrating SCSI devices in PC s in order to achieve the desired data transfer rate in your computer. One quick rule of thumb is, if your PC system s motherboard supports the Intel 440LX chipset (66 Mhz bus speed ) or the new 440BX chipset (100 Mhz bus speed), then the system can really take advantage of Ultra 2 SCSI drive data throughput. Otherwise, you wont be able to get the desired performance, since the limitation is not in the drive parameters but the system s incompatibility or limitation to in
