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Serial ATA PCI
Quick Installation Guide
04-0265C
Introducing the Serial ATA PCI
The Serial ATA PCI is an ultra high-speed dual channel
Serial ATA controller board for use in Pentium-class
computers. It achieves burst data transfer rates up to
150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brand of hard
disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB.
Features and Benefits
• Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, rev. 1.0
• Compliant with PCI Specification, rev. 2.2
• Provides two independent channels to support up
to two Serial ATA drives.
• Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel
for host reads and writes
• Co-exists with on-board Ultra ATA controller
• Features Watch Dog timer for fault resiliency
• Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz
• Lower pin count and voltage requirement, plus
better cabling over traditional Parallel ATA make
Serial ATA the controller of the future
System Requirements
• Pentium-class computer with one available PCI slot
• Windows 98/98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP