Super X8SI6-F, User Manual

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X8SIE/X8SIE-F/X8SI6-F/X8SIE-LN4/X8SIE-LN4F User’s Manual
1-6 Super I/O
The disk drive adapter functions of the Super I/O chip include a floppy disk drive
controller that is compatible with industry standard 82077/765, a data separator,
write pre-compensation circuitry, decode logic, data rate selection, a clock genera-
tor, drive interface control logic and interrupt and DMA logic. The wide range of
functions integrated onto the Super I/O greatly reduces the number of components
required for interfacing with floppy disk drives. The Super I/O supports two 360 K,
720 K, 1.2 M, 1.44 M or 2.88 M disk drives and data transfer rates of 250 Kb/s,
500 Kb/s or 1 Mb/s.
It also provides two high-speed, 16550-compatible serial communication ports
(UARTs). Each UART includes a 16-byte send/receive FIFO, a programmable baud
rate generator, complete modem control capability and a processor interrupt sys-
tem. Both UARTs provide legacy speed with baud rate of up to 115.2 Kbps as well
as an advanced speed with baud rates of 250 K, 500 K, or 1 Mb/s, which support
higher speed modems.
The Super I/O provides functions that comply with ACPI (Advanced Configuration
and Power Interface), which includes support of legacy and ACPI power manage-
ment through a SMI or SCI function pin. It also features auto power management
to reduce power consumption.
iSCSI Support
The X8SIE/X8SIE-F/X8SI6-F/X8SIE-LN4/X8SIE-LN4F motherboard supports the
iSCSI Internet Protocol. iSCSI is an IP networking standard used to link and man-
age data storage, and for data transfers across the internet/intranets through long
distances. iSCSI can be used to transmit data over local area networks (LANs),
wide area networks (WANs), or the Internet. It can enable location-independent
data storage and retrieval.
iSCSI allow clients to issue SCSI commands to remote SCSI storage devices and
allows data centers to consolidate remote storage devices into storage arrays, giv-
ing an illusion of locally-attached disks to host servers. Unlike fiber-optic networks
that require special cabling, iSCSI can be run over long distances using existing
networks. For the X8SIE/X8SIE-F/X8SI6-F/X8SIE-LN4/X8SIE-LN4F motherboard,
iSCSI is supported on LAN1. This can be enabled through the BIOS: Advanced =>
PCI/PnP Configuration => Onboard LAN1 Option ROM Select. Please see Chapter
4 for details.