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Serial ATA PCI-M
Quick Installation Guide
04-0320B
Introducing the Serial ATA PCI-M
The Serial ATA PCI-M is an ultra high-speed dual channel
Serial ATA controller for use in Mac computers. It
achieves burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/s (1.5Gbps)
and supports various brand of hard disk drives with
capacities greater than 137GB.
Features and Benefits
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Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, rev. 1.0
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Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.3
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Provides two independent channels to support up
to two Serial ATA drives
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Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel
for host reads and writes
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Co-exists with on-board controller
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Can be used as the boot controller when a bootable
hard disk drive is attached
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Supports 64/32-bit wide PCI slot at 33MHz
System Requirements
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G3 (blue & white) or later with one available PCI slot
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Mac OS X v10.1.x or later *
*Note: Support for Mac OS X v10.1.x will be available
at the end of June, 2004. At that time, check our
website at www.siig.com for more details.
