Chapter 2. System board features
PCI bus
The fully synchronous 33 MHz PCI bus originates in the chip set. Features of the PCI
Ÿ | Integrated arbiter | with multitransaction PCI arbitration acceleration | hooks |
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Ÿ | Conversion of | sequential | write | to | PCI | burst | wri | |
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Ÿ | Multitransaction timer | to | support multiple short PCI transactions | within | one | PCI | ARB | cycl |
Ÿ | PCI 2.2 compliant |
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ŸDelayed transaction
ŸPCI parity checking and generation support
IDE bus master interface
The system board incorporates a
The | bus | master | for the |
| IDE | interface |
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is PCI | 2.2 | compliant. It |
| connects | directly | to | the PCI | bus | and | is | designed | to | allow c | |||||||||||||
the | PCI | bus and IDE bus. The chip | set | is capable | of | supporting | PIO | mode | device | |||||||||||||||||
mode | ATA | 66 |
| transfers up to 66 megabytes per second (MBps). |
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The | IDE | devices | receive | their | power | through a | ||||||||||||||||||||
voltage. When devices are added to the | IDE | interface, | one device | is | designated | as | ||||||||||||||||||||
another | is designated | as | the | slave | or |
| subordinate | device. These | designations | are | det | |||||||||||||||
or jumpers on each device. There are | two IDE ports, one designated Primary and the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
allowing | for | up | to | four | devices | to | be | attached. The | total | number | of physical | IDE | de | |||||||||||||
the | mechanical | package. |
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For | the | IDE | interface, | no resource assignments are given in the system memory or the | ||||||||||||||||||||||
access | (DMA) | channels. For |
| information | on | the | resource | assignments, | see | “Input/output addre | ||||||||||||||||
page 36 | and | Figure 38 | on |
| page 40 | (for | IRQ | assignments). |
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Two connectors are provided on the riser card for the IDE interface. For information assignments, see “IDE connectors” on page 30.
USB interface
Universal Serial Bus (USB) | technology | is | a | standard | feature of | the computer. | The | syst | ||||||||||||
the USB interface with two | connectors | integrated into | the | ICH1 | (I/O | hub) | in | the chi | ||||||||||||
device | can | attach | to | a | connector, | and | if | that | device | is | a | hub, | multiple | peripheral | ||||||
hub and | be | used | by | the | system. The | USB | connectors | use | Plug | and | Play | technology | for | |||||||
The speed of the USB | is | up to 12 MB/sec with a maximum | of | 127 | peripheral | devices. | ||||||||||||||
compliant | with Universal | Host | Controller Interface | Guide | 1.0. |
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