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South Bridge controller
The VIA VT8235/VT8237 integrated peripheral South Bridge controller
communicates with the North Bridge at the rates of up to 533MB/s using the
VIA 8X VLink technology. This controller supports standard UltraATA 133/
100/66/33 and provides separate data paths for each IDE channel for up to
two IDE devices. This controller also integrates SATA RAID controller (only
for VT8237), Ethernet MAC, Universal Serial Bus Host controller.
1394 controller (optional)
VT6307 is the controller for IEEE1394a on motherboard. The VT6307 is a
complete small package single chip PCI solution at 400Mbps, low power
seamless plug and play connections to the latest IEEE 1394 enabled
devices.
Floppy disk connector
This connector accommodates the provided ribbon cable for the floppy disk
drive. One side of the connector is slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of
the floppy disk cable.
PCI slots
These three 32-bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots support bus master PCI cards
like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput.
CNR Slot (optional)
This slot is specifically designed for the Communication and Networking
Riser (CNR) card. The CNR supports V.90 analog modem only.
Super I/O controller
The VIA VT1211 I/O controller offers support for a variety of I/O function.
Provides a high-performance floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/
2.88M floppy disk drive, a multi-mode parallel port, one serial port and a
Flash ROM interface.
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