Is This Considered An SCSI Controller Card?

Is this considered an SCSI controller card? If not what is one I'd like to know specifically.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CX-VT6421A

Thanks

 

That is a SATA card which is different than SCSI. If you have a SCSI device you need this controller. This is for Wide SCSI which should be okay unless you have a very old device. I have only used SCSI once for an internal ZIP drive.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...tbm=shop&cid=16976003973089208534&output=nojs

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/scsi-vs-sata-vs-ide.html

 

Note when installing XP, XP was designed long before SATA came about, when IDE drives (later called PATA) were the standard. But SCSI, which had already been around for many years (mostly on servers), was supported by XP, but only if you loaded the special drivers when prompted during the XP install.

The thing is, and where some confusion has come from, it is when prompted for the SCSI drivers that you could install SATA drivers to get XP to support SATA drives.

Later versions of Windows supported SATA so you did not have to go through that hassle.