ISA SCSI Adaptor Cards

[fishbyer]

What are the drawbacks of an ISA SCSI adaptor card, compared to the newer ones.
I have a 7200 rpm, 4.5 GB SCSI drive coming to me. I also want to get a SCSI burner.

 

[ycs46241]

isa is only 8bit or 16 bit,also slower bus speed's that would creat problems with the scsi interface

 

[Crashman]

ISA is 8MHz*16-bit=128Mb/s=16MB/s. As you can see, the max data flow is 16MB/s, which only meets original Fast SCSI standards (10MB/s). While this is fine for a CD burner (1x=150KB/s, so 68x=10MB/s), it's far too slow for reasonable hard drive performance.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?