Technical Reference Guide: HP Compaq dc7800 Series Business Desktop Computers

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Input/Output Interfaces
5.1 Introduction
This chapter describes the standard interfaces that provide input and output (I/O) porting of data
and that are controlled through I/O-mapped registers. The following I/O interfaces are covered in
this chapter:
■ SATA interface (5.2)
■ PATA interface (5.3)
■ Diskette drive interface (5.4)
■ Serial interfaces (5.5)
■ Parallel interface (5.6)
■ Keyboard/pointing device interface (5.7)
■ Universal serial bus interface (5.8)
■ Audio subsystem (5.9)
■ Network interface controller (5.10)