DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200-T2/G, User Manual

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Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that trans-
fers digital audio signals to a device without having to be
converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is
converted to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equip-
ment such as a DAT machine or audio processing device. The
S/PDIF connector on the system board sends surround sound and
3D audio signal outputs to amplifiers and speakers and to digital
recording devices like CD recorders.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compli-
ant with SATA 1.0 specification. ATI SB600 and
Promise PDC40719 both support speed of up to 3Gb/s. Serial
ATA improves hard drive performance faster than the standard par-
allel ATA whose data transfer rate is 100MB/s.
The ATI SB600 chip allows configuring RAID on 4 Serial
ATA drives. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1.
The Promise PDC40719 chip (LP UT ICFX3200-T2R/G
only) allows configuring RAID on another 4 Serial ATA
ports. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID
5.
The Marvell 88E8052 and Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit PCI
Express LAN support up to 1Gbps.
IEEE 1394 is fully compliant with the 1394 OHCI (Open
Host Controller Interface) 1.1 specification. It supports up
to 63 devices that can run simultaneously on a system.
1394 is a fast external bus standard that supports data
transfer rates of up to 400Mbps. In addition to its high speed, it
also supports isochronous data transfer which is ideal for video de-
vices that need to transfer high levels of data in real-time. 1394
supports both Plug-and-Play and hot plugging.