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| *SATA Controller |
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| Supports six Third generation SATA ports (compatible with devices running at 6 |
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| Gbits/s, 3 Gbit/s, and1.5 Gbit/s) |
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| Complies with SATA 2.6 specification |
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| Supports three modes of operation: |
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| *IDE emulation mode |
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| AHCI mode (compliant with AHCI specification revision 1.2) |
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| RAID mode |
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| *Any of the six ports can be configured to a lower transfer rate of 3 or 1.5 Gbit/s |
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| for saving power. |
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| Any of the six SATA ports can be configured to support Second generation e- |
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| SATA port (compatible with devices running at 3 Gbit/s and 1.5 Gbit/s; Third |
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| generation |
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| Supports DIPM, HIPM, hot plug, and NCQ in AHCI mode. |
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| *AMD RAID Support |
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| Supports integrated RAID 0 and RAID 1 functionality across all 6 ports |
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| *AHCI Support |
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| Supports AHCI hardware assist (version 1.2) to support advanced features such |
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| as NCQ (Native Command Queuing), hotplug, and *Device or Host Initiated |
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| Power Management (DIPM /HIPM) |
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| *High Definition Audio |
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| Four independent output streams (DMA) |
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| Four independent input streams (DMA) |
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| Multiple channels of audio output per stream |
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| *Supports up to 4 codecs |
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| Up to 192kHz sample rate and |
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| Unified Audio Architecture (UAA) compatible |
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| HD Audio registers can be located anywhere in the |
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| Supports 3.3V/1.5V |
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| *Gigabit Ethernet Media Access |
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| *Controller (GbE MAC) |
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| Supports RGMII/MII interface to Ethernet PHY (for selected |
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| BroadcomRtransceivers only) |
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| Supports Receive Side Scaling (RSS) |
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| IPv4 and IPv6 Large Send Offload (LSO) |
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| IPv4 and IPv6 Checksum Offload |
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| *Timers |
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| Microsoft High Precision Event Timer (HPET) |
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| ACPI power management timer |
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| Watchdog timer |
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| *Real Time Clock (RTC) |
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| Hardware supported century rollover |
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| Hardware supported |
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| RTC battery monitoring feature |
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