System Overview
ROBO-8911VG2A User’s Manual
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IDE Interface
Support one enhanced IDE port up to two HDD devices with PIO mode 4 and
Ultra DMA/33/66/100 mode transfer and Bus Master feature
Floppy Drive Interface
Support one FDD port up to two floppy drives and 5-1/4"(360K, 1.2MB), 3-1/2"
(720K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB) diskette format and 3-mode FDD
Serial Ports
Support two high-speed 16C550 compatible UARTs with 16-byte T/R FIFOs
IR Interface
Support one 6-pin header for serial Standard Infrared wireless communication
Parallel Port
Support one parallel port with SPP, EPP and ECP modes
USB Interface
Support eight USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports for high-speed I/O peripheral
devices
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Interface
Support one 8-pin connector for external PS/2 keyboard/mouse connection
Auxiliary I/O Interfaces
System reset switch, external speaker, Keyboard lock and HDD active LED, etc
Real Time Clock/Calendar (RTC)
Support Y2K Real Time Clock/Calendar with battery backup for 7-year data
retention
Watchdog Timer
- Support WDT function through software programming for enable/disable and
interval setting
- Generate system reset
CompactFlash
- True IDE mode, compatibles with the ATA/ATAPI-4 specification
- One Type II CF socket on secondary IDE channel for supporting up to 1GB
memory
- Support DMA mode
- Bootable for no drives on primary channel
On-board VGA
- GMCH integrated graphics, 333MHz core frequency; share system memory up
to 224MB for system with greater than or equal to 512MB of system memory
On-board Ethernet LAN
Marvell PCI interface based Gigabit Ethernet to support RJ-45 connector
High Driving GPIO
Support 8 programmable high driving GPIO
