BusLogic FlashPoint LT SCSI Adapters Win Editor's Choice Awards in Leading Publications.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--When editors of leading high-tech magazines around the world review new products, they look for excellent performance, attractive pricing and innovative technological advancement. When it comes to testing Ultra SCSI The designation for various high-speed SCSI interfaces. The original specification was Ultra SCSI, followed by Ultra2, Ultra3, etc. For details, see SCSI. products, BusLogic's FlashPoint LT has proven to be an award-winning product in the Ultra SCSI category. FlashPoint LT, the industry's first PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Ultra SCSI host adapter Also called a "controller" or "host bus adapter," it is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a computer. It is typically an expansion card that plugs into the bus. IDE and SCSI are examples of peripheral interfaces that call their controllers host adapters. See host. is SCAM (SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Configured Auto Matically) Level 1- and PCI 2.1-compliant, recently won "Editor's Choice" awards in ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, PC MAG and WINDOWS NEWS. In the December 1995 issue of ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, FlashPoint LT was cited as an "outstanding product featuring technological advancement and a substantial gain in price and performance." WINDOWS NEWS also hailed the FlashPoint LT as "a high-end controller offered at a competitive price." In PC MAG, a French publication, the FlashPoint LT received the highest rating of four stars for its "excellent performance and very attractive price." In benchmarks conducted by PC MAGAZINE LABS earlier this month, the Micron P166 Millennia Plus "boasting an advanced BusLogic Fast SCSI A SCSI interface that transfers at 10 Mbytes/sec rather than 5 Mbytes/sec. The maximum cable length is 9.8 feet. See SCSI. (hardware) Fast SCSI - A variant on the SCSI-2 bus. It uses the same 8-bit bus as the original SCSI-1 but runs at up to 10MB/s - double the speed of SCSI-1. controller" received a Disk WinMark 96 score of 1,210 -- 40 percent faster than "average" P100 desktops and 20 percent faster than the other P166 systems tested. "FlashPoint LT has pushed the envelope of price/performance capabilities in today's Ultra SCSI market. From its inception, it was developed to offer OEMs, VARs and power users an easy-to-use SCSI solution featuring workstation-class I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output performance and Ultra SCSI- and SCAM-compliance at an affordable price for the high-end desktop PC," said Julian Elliott, BusLogic's vice president of marketing. "We are delighted by the overwhelming response we have received from OEMs and the editorial community on FlashPoint LT." FlashPoint LT Innovation FlashPoint LT features BusLogic's new SeqEngine automation technology that reduces SCSI command overhead and the number of interrupts generated to the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . This SeqEngine technology, coupled with advanced bus mastering, significantly enhances performance in multi-threaded, graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to environments. FlashPoint LT fully supports the Ultra SCSI (Fast-20) specification, providing SCSI data transfers of up to 20 megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). to Ultra SCSI disk drives. It is also backward compatible with SCSI-1, -2, and -3 peripherals. FlashPoint LT offers broad peripheral compatibility with a wide range of SCSI devices such as hard drives, CD-ROMs, tape drives, removable disks, magneto-optical drives, juke boxes and scanners. Additionally, FlashPoint LT provides support for hard drives greater than eight gigabytes. FlashPoint LT can support up to seven SCSI devices either internal or external to the host system, and is fully compatible with Ultra SCSI, SCSI-2 and SCSI-1 devices. FlashPoint LT is fully Plug and Play, complying to the PCI 2.1 and SCAM Level 1 specifications; features AutoSCSI, a utility allowing the user to customize key parameters of the adapter via a software interface to the resident system; and includes GreenLogic, a power-saving feature which reduces power consumption when the SCSI bus is idle. Driver support is available for Windows 95, DOS/Windows, Windows NT, NetWare, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and OS/2. BusLogic's DOS Manager features an Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) An interface specification developed by Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA, that provides a common language between drivers and SCSI host adapters. ) layer, and a Win ASPI layer, making the adapter fully compatible with a wide range of available third-party software that enhance flexibility in configuring a SCSI solution. About BusLogic Founded in 1988, BusLogic Inc. is a leading supplier of high-performance bus mastered SCSI host adapters for desktop PCs and network servers. BusLogic has recently announced plans to merge with Mylex Corporation (NASDAQ/NM SYMBOL: MYLX), a leading producer of RAID technology and network management products. The merger, subject to approval by BusLogic shareholders and to normal closing conditions, is scheduled to close in January 1996. Upon completion of the transaction, BusLogic will continue to operate under its name and at its present location as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mylex. All BusLogic products are used by OEMs, systems integrators and VARs, and are available worldwide direct from BusLogic or through distributors and resellers. All products are backed by a responsive and flexible customer support organization. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Product and company names used here are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: BusLogic Inc. Elyse Phillips, 408/492-9090 http://www.buslogic.com or Walt & Co. Communications Paige Burgess/Lynne Wall, 408/496-0900 pburgess@walt.com |
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