-=> My computer told me that Kenneth J. Renaud said to Richard St. John
 KJR> Is Hardware based scanning done through the Bios? I was reading up on
 KJR> updating my Bios & that is what it seems it was suggesting?
No, hardware based scanning, at least the type we use, is a card that
sits in the machine. More like an SCSI card than anything else because
the drives connect directly to it. as a read/write request is made the
card scans the data. In a way this is slower than a standard access to
the drive, but since it has onboard buffers it is also a bit faster when
writing. The card itself has it's own processor and has upgrades done
via flash ram.
RS
... "Bother," said Pooh, as Will Riker attempted to mate with him
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