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1. Introduction
This Low Profile PCI Host Adapter is a PCI-Express controller board which supports
low profile PCI and regular size PCI interfaces in one card. The card can upgrade your
desktop computer to have 2 Serial ATA ports with transfer rates of up to of 3 Gb/s (300
MB/s).
The SATA ports can access SATA storage media such as hard disk drives, Zip drives,
CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives.
It comes with drivers for Windows NT4.0, XP, 2000, Server2003.
1.1. Features
External SATA II (eSATA) Connector
48 bit LBA supports HDD larger than 137GB
Supports 1-lane 2.5Gbps PCI Express
Hot-plug capability
Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications
Supports two independent Serial ATA channels
Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO
Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution
Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ)
Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Supports Non-zero offsets NCQ
Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ
Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers
31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port
Two pin headers on board for LED connection
Complete with drivers for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows
Server 2003
