Specifications

88 PCA-6180 User's Manual
7.1 Introduction
This driver takes advantage of the latest Intel
®
Ultra ATA controller
features to improve both storage subsystem performance and overall
system performance. A useful diagnostic tool, Intel Ultra ATA
Companion
®
, shows technical information of the ATA subsystem.
7.2 Features
• The driver enables fast Ultra ATA transfers by default.
• Users no longer have to manually enable DMA transfers for each
ATA and/or ATAPI peripheral devices.
• Each ATA channel has independent device timings/transfers which
allows PIO-only and DMA-capable devices to share the same
ATA controller cable, where one is the master and the other the
slave, without restricting transfer mode to PIO-only for both
devices.
• Technical details of the ATA subsystem can be viewed via use of the
application.
• Drivers are optimized.