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Chapter 1: Introduction
Integrated LAN Controller
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WfM 2.0 and IEEE 802.3 Compliant
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10/100 Mbit/sec Ethernet Support
Integrated Serial ATA Host Controllers
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Independent DMA operation on two ports
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Data transfer rates up to 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s)
Integrated IDE Controller
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Ultra ATA/100/66/33, BMIDE and PIO modes
USB 2.0
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Includes 4 UHCI Host Controllers, increasing the number
of external ports to eight
AC-Link for Audio and Telephony Codecs
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Support for 3 AC’97 2.3 codecs
Memory Support
Three184-pin 2.5V DIMM sockets for DDR SDRAM
memory modules
Supports
DDR400
/333/266 memory bus
Maximum installed memory is 3 GB
Expansion Slots
One
AGP Express
slot
One
CNR
slot
Three 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.3-compliant bus interface
Onboard IDE channels
Two IDE Connectors
Supports PIO (Programmable Input/Output) and DMA
(Direct Memory Access) modes
Supports IDE Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates
of
100
/66 MB/sec
Serial ATA
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Two Serial ATA Connectors
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (~150 MB/s) with
scalability to higher rates