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1. Introduction 

 

 

This Low Profile PCI Host Adapter is a PCI-Express controller board which supports   

low profile PCI and regular size PCI interfaces in one card. The card can upgrade your 

desktop computer to have 2 Serial ATA ports with transfer rates of up to of 3 Gb/s (300 

MB/s). 

 

The SATA ports can access SATA storage media such as hard disk drives, Zip drives, 

CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives. 

 

It comes with drivers for Windows NT4.0, XP, 2000, Server2003. 

 

1.1. Features 

 

External SATA II (eSATA) Connector 

 

48 bit LBA supports HDD larger than 137GB   

 

Supports 1-lane 2.5Gbps PCI Express 

 

Hot-plug capability   

 

Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps 

 

Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications      

 

Supports two independent Serial ATA channels 

 

Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO   

 

Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution 

 

Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ)   

 

Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)   

 

Supports Non-zero offsets NCQ   

 

Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ   

 

Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers 

 

31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port 

 

Two pin headers on board for LED connection 

 

Complete with drivers for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 

Server 2003 

 

 

 

 

 

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