Adaptec AFW-4300B PCI Storage Controller
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- Connects storage devices (likely SCSI)
- Provides host-to-storage communication
- Common in older systems
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Key specifications
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- AFW-4300B
- Type
- PCI Storage Controller Card
- Bus Interface
- PCI
- Manufacturer
- Adaptec
Product details
The Adaptec AFW-4300B is a PCI storage controller card, likely designed for connecting SCSI or other legacy storage devices to a computer system. This type of controller provides the interface and logic necessary for the host system to communicate with and manage attached storage peripherals. It was common in older server and workstation configurations.
Specifications
- Part Number
- AFW-4300B
- Type
- PCI Storage Controller Card
- Bus Interface
- PCI
- Manufacturer
- Adaptec
Description
The Adaptec AFW-4300B is a storage controller card that utilizes the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus interface. In its era, PCI was a standard expansion slot for adding functionality to computer motherboards. Storage controllers like the AFW-4300B were essential for enabling systems to connect to and manage various types of storage devices that were not natively supported by the motherboard's chipset. Given Adaptec's historical product lines, this controller likely supported interfaces such as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which was prevalent for high-performance hard drives, tape drives, and optical drives in servers and workstations before the widespread adoption of SATA and SAS. The controller card contains the necessary hardware logic and firmware to translate commands from the operating system into signals understood by the storage devices and vice versa. This card would have been crucial for systems requiring more storage capacity, higher performance, or specific device compatibility than what was offered by onboard controllers. Its presence indicates a system designed for tasks involving significant data storage or management, common in server environments, workstations for content creation, or scientific computing setups from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.
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