-=> Quoting Richard St. John to Kenneth J. Renaud <=-
 -=> My computer told me that Kenneth J. Renaud said to Richard St. John
 RSJ> 
 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?
 RSJ> 
 RSJ> No, hardware based scanning, at least the type we use, is a card that
 RSJ> sits in the machine. More like an SCSI card than anything else because
 RSJ> the drives connect directly to it. as a read/write request is made the
 RSJ> card scans the data. In a way this is slower than a standard access to
 RSJ> the drive, but since it has onboard buffers it is also a bit faster
 RSJ> when writing. The card itself has it's own processor and has upgrades
 RSJ> done via flash ram.
 RSJ> 
       Since its a Card Ill assume its most used by Systems for Busniesses
       due to cost? It sounds interesting.
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