Hardware Interfaces

The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are supported in the system unit.

Table 1-1 System Board Hardware Interfaces

Item

Interface

 

 

Expansion slot for

Two PCI (peripheral component

I/O adapter cards

interconnect) v2.1 compatible

 

expansion slots that operate at 33

 

MHz bus speed. PCI slots can accept

 

short (175mm) PCI adapter cards.

 

 

Hard Disk Drives

Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0

 

compatible hard disk drive interfaces

 

that support PIO mode up to mode 4,

 

DMA 32-bit access up to mode 2 and

 

Ultra 66 Synchronous DMA up to

 

mode 2 (66M bytes/sec).

 

 

CD-ROM Drive

5.25-in. high-performance, forty

 

speed (40X) CD-ROM IDE/AT drive

 

Support Bootable CD-ROM Format

 

specification version 1.0.

 

 

Diskette Drive

AT diskette interface

 

 

Video

Physical interface is compatible with

 

the IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2)

 

VGA interface.

 

Intel 810 VGA on board.

 

 

Modem

One 56.6 Kbps PCI plug and play

 

modem adapter card with data/fax

 

features.(not standard in all systems)

 

 

Audio

CM18738

 

 

Pointing device

IBM PS/2-compatible mouse

 

 

Keyboard device

IBM PS/2-compatible keyboard

 

 

Serial port

9-pin connector with RS232D

 

electrical interface

 

 

Parallel port

Supports SPP (IBM PC/AT, PS/2)

 

compatible, EPP (IEEE 1284

 

compliance), ECP (IEEE 1284

 

compliance) interface.

 

 

Game port

Game port interface for joystick. It

 

also supports MIDI.

 

 

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