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If you want 100MB/sec ATA data transfers, Ultra100 is the world's first controller card that supports the new Ultra ATA/100 drives.
The Ultra100 TX2 is designed to support newer motherboards with a PCI bus speed of 66MHz (versus earlier 33MHz models). The faster bus speed provides up to 266MB per second bandwidth. The card is backward compatible allowing you to install the controller into a 33MHz PCI bus motherboard where it will allow maximum data transfers of up to 133MB per second across the bus. Please note that actual transfer rates will depend on the capabilities of each device attached to the controller.
The controller installs easily into any available PCI slot on your system’s motherboard. The Ultra100TX2 controller card provides two IDE channels that support Ultra ATA/100 protocols, perfect for such demanding applications as real-time video, multimedia, and high-performance operating systems.
Ultra100 TX2’s two IDE connectors each support a master/slave combination of IDE devices, including Ultra ATA, EIDE, IDE, Fast-ATA, and ATAPI. Devices of different standards can be connected to Ultra100 TX2 without performance degradation, due to the independent programmable timing registers in the controller’s design.
Features: Provides up to 200MB/sec bandwidth. CRC checking with Ultra ATA hard drives. Dual independent channel PCI IDE bus master controller. PCI “Plug & Play?compatibility. Coexists with IDE and SCSI controllers. Onboard BIOS with LBA translation and Extended Int 13, supporting IDE hard drives up to 128GB. Flashable BIOS allows easy upgrades.
Notes: (1) Most power supplies on the market do not have the correct connector to supply power to serial ata drives. (2) Retail box and OEM used interchangeably, depending on the market availability.