FWB Announces PCI SCSI JackHammer

High Performance Fast & Wide SCSI-2 Accelerator Targets Expected PCI Based
Power Macintosh

San Francisco. March 10. 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award winning
Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced
the PCI SCSI JackHammer--a high performance Fast &. Wide SCSI-2
co-processing PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) accelerator for
Apple Computer, Inc.'s new Power Macintosh systems, which are expected to
incorporate the industry standard PCI bus. Specifically engineered for
applications that demand ultimate performance and/or high levels of fault
tolerance, FWB's PCI SCSI JackHammer will be fully compatible with the
future PCI based Power Macintosh Platform.

The first in a family of high performance PCI products from FWB (including
board level, RAID and other storage subsystems), this 40 MHz RISC based
Fast & Wide SCSI-2 coprocessor conforms to PCI Local Bus Specification v.
2.0, is fully compatible with system 7.5 and optimized for SCSI Manager
4.3. The Bus Master architecture of the PCI SCSI JackHammer off-loads I/O
tasks from the CPU enabling high speed PCI bus transfers of up to 132
MB/sec. over a 32-bit data path. DMA transfer rates reach up to 105
MB/sec. FWB's intelligent engineering provides advanced support for
Asynchronous I/O requests, tagged command Queuing, and
Disconnect/Reconnect, maximizing the performance of today's sophisticated
storage subsystems to increase system throughput and user productivity.
The PCI SCSI JackHammer fully implements the PCI Open Boot Standard IEEE
P1275) and supports 15 devices, including hard disks, disk arrays,
removables (SyQuest, Bernoulli, Optical), tape, CD-ROM, CD writer, and
other non-storage SCSI devices.

Ensuring flexibility and future compatibility, the PCI SCSI JackHammer's
flash ROMs give users easily upgradable firmware. Optimized for today's
demanding digital video, color publishing, multimedia and networking
applications, the PCI SCSI JackHammer, when combined with FWB's award
winning SledgeHammer RAID solutions, can achieve sustained data transfer
rates of up to 29 MB/sec. The PCI SCSI JackHammer fully supports SCSI,
SCSI-2, Fast SCSI-2, Fast & Wide SCSI-2 and Apple Common Access Method,
insuring maximum bandwidth and compatibility.

The PCI SCSI JackHammer is a supplementary and complementary SCSI bus for
the future PCI based Power Macintosh. Native SCSI ports remain fully
functional. Every PCI SCSI JackHammer will include FWB's Hard Disk
ToolKit--1991 MacUser Eddy Finalist for Best New Storage Product.

The PCI SCSI JackHammer will be immediately available upon Apple's
anticipated introduction of the PCI based Power Macintosh. Preliminary
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price for the PCI SCSI JackHammer has been
set at $499. An upgrade for existing FWB SCSI JackHammer owners, as well
as a competitive upgrade program for other NuBus SCSI boards will be
announced at a later date.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products
specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook,
the Apple Workgroup Servers and the Power Macintosh. FWB products include
SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and HammerPB
hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape and
HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2 accelerator
board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk
ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CD-ROM ToolKit
accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been
consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as
MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, AV Video Magazine, PC Magazine, and BYTE.
FWB's PremiumService has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The
Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine ranked FWB on the Inc. 500
list of fastest growing privately held companies in both 1993 and 1994.

FWB Inc
1555 Adams Dr
Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-325-4FWB,  fax 415-833-4657
AOL: FWBINC
AppleLink: FWB
CIS: 71320,1034
eWORLD: FWB.INC

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