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Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that
transfers 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 oyn digital audio
equipment such as a DAT machine or audio processing device. The
S/PDIF interface on the system board sends surround sound and
3D audio signal outputs to amplifiers and speakers and to digital
recording devices like CD recorders.
The JMicron JMB363 controller supports up to two
UltraDMA 100Mbps IDE devices and two Serial
ATA devices.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compli-
ant with SATA 1.0 specification. Intel ICH9R
and JMicron JMB363 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 Intel ICH9R chip allows configuring RAID on Serial ATA
devices. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID
5.
The JMicron JMB363 chip allows configuring RAID on an-
other 2 Serial ATA devices. It supports RAID 0 and RAID
1.
The Marvell 88E8052 and Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express
Gigabit LAN controllers support up to 1Gbps data rate.
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