4
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Two IDE connectors which support four IDE channels and
a floppy disk drive interface
The L7S7A supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer
rates of 33/66/100 MB/sec.
Sil3112A Serial
ATA (optional)
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Integrated Serial ATA Link and PHY logic
•
Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications
•
Supports two independent Serial ATA channel
•
Supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of
1.5Gb/s
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Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver
•
Single PLL architecture, 1 PLL for both ports
The Realtek RTL8100B LAN chip is incorporated in the chipset
providing the mainboard with 10/100Mbps fast Ethernet con-
troller and integrated Ethernet PCI LAN capabilities.
Onboard LAN
(optional)
RTL8201BL is a Fast Ethernet Phyceiver with an MII (Media
Independent Interface)/SNI (Serial Network Interface). It can
be used as a Network Interface Adapter, MAU, CNR, ACR,
Ethernet Hub, and Ethernet Switch.
IEEE 1394A Con-
troller Interface
(optional)
•
Fully support provisions of IEEE1394-1995 for High- Per-
formance Serial Bus and the P1394a draft 2.0 standard
•
Provides one compliant cable port at 100Mbits/s,
200Mbits/s, and 400Mbits/s
•
Supports arbitrated short bus reset to improve utilization
of the bus
•
Data interface to link-layer controller provided through
2/4/8 parallel lines at 50Mbits/s
•
Support power-down feature to conserve energy in bat-
tery powered applications
Integrated I/O
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
•
Two serial port
•
One parallel port
•
One
MIDI/game
port
•
Two USB ports
•
One
LAN
port
•
Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
BIOS
Firmware
This mainboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to config-
ure many system features including the following:
•
Power
management
•
Wake-up
alarms
•
CPU
parameters
•
CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.