CA810 Motherboard Product Guide

LAN Subsystem Software

The Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet WfM PCI LAN software and drivers are available from Intel’s World Wide Web site.

RJ-45 LAN Connector LEDs

Two LEDs are built into the RJ-45 LAN connector. Table 3 describes the LED states when the board is powered up and the LAN subsystem is operating.

Table 3.

RJ-45 LAN Connector LEDs

 

 

 

 

 

LED Color

 

LED State

Indicates

Green

 

Off

10 Mbit/sec speed is selected.

 

 

On

100 Mbit/sec speed is selected.

Yellow

 

Off

LAN link is not established.

 

 

On (steady state)

LAN link is established.

 

 

On (brighter and pulsing)

The computer is communicating with another computer on

 

 

 

the LAN.

PCI Enhanced IDE Interface

The PCI enhanced IDE interface handles the exchange of information between the processor and peripheral devices like hard disks, CD-ROM drives, and Iomega Zip† drives inside the computer. The interface supports:

∙Up to four IDE devices (such as hard drives)

∙ATAPI devices (such as CD-ROM drives)

∙PIO Mode 3 and PIO Mode 4 devices

∙Ultra ATA/33 and Ultra ATA/66

∙Logical block addressing (LBA) of hard drives larger than 528 MB and extended cylinder head sector (ECHS) translation modes

∙Support for laser servo (LS-120) drives

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