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PowerDomain 3940UW

The Adaptec PowerDomain 3940UW UltraSCSI accelerator is the ideal I/O solution for high-speed data transfers between your Power Macintosh with PCI and SCSI peripherals. It moves data up to 80 MByte/sec on two SCSI channels and connects up to 30 peripherals, so your hottest applications never have to wait for I/O.

Note: Only drivers that are not included or embedded within a supported operating system are listed below. To see a complete list of supported operating systems see the Product Specifications

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Bios Updates and Other Downloadable Files

Bios Updates and Other Downloads

Macintosh OS

Macintosh OS 8x and 9x

Hardware Installation: how to install your adaptec pci card (html 74 kb); scsi and macintosh (html 69 kb)

Interoperability: mac os x (html 68 kb)

Product Documentation: User Guide for the Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW/3940UW (PDF 1 MB)

Number of devices
	Up to 30 single-ended SCSI peripherals

Bus System Interface Type
	PCI expansion bus

External Connectors
	Two 0.8 mm, 68-pinUltra Wide connectors

Internal Connectors
	68-pin SCSI ribbon cables

Data Transfer Rate
	Up to 40 Mbytes/sec/channel (80MB over two channels)

Package Contents
	PowerDomain 3940UW UltraSCSI acceleratorPowerDomain Control softwarePowerDomain DiscBasicsTM softwareInternal 68-pin SCSI ribbon cables (2)External 0.8-mm, 68-pin cableComplete documentation

Warranty
	5 years

Supported Protocols

SCSI-1,
SCSI-2,
SCSI-3 (Ultra)

Types of Devices Supported

Hard disk,
removable disk,
MO, CD-ROM,
tape, DAT,
Floptical® drives and scanners
Termination Active

Advanced Features

Support for scatter/gather, disconnect/reconnect, tagged command queuing
Independent negotiation of high-speed data transfers (Fast, Wide, Ultra) with each peripheral device
Support for 255 simultaneous active SCSI commands
On-board flash memory for easy driver upgrades
SCSI Manager 4.3 compliant
Bootable from attached disks

PCI Bus Data Transfer Rate