Features and Benefits, System Requirements

Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI

Quick Installation Guide

Introducing the Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI

The Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI is an ultra high-speed four channel Serial ATA controller for use in Pentium-class computers. It achieves burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brand of hard disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB.

Features and Benefits

•Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, rev 1.0

•Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2

•Provides four independent channels to support up to four Serial ATA drives

•Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel for host reads and writes

•Co-exists with on-board Ultra ATA controller

•Features Watch Dog timer for fault resiliency

•Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz

•Lower pin count and voltage requirement, plus better cabling over traditional Parallel ATA make Serial ATA the controller of the future

System Requirements

•Pentium-class computer with one available PCI slot

•Windows 98/98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003

•CD-ROM drive (for driver installation)

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