SIIG 04-0322C - Manual

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Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI
Quick Installation Guide
04-0322C
Introducing the Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI
The Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI is an ultra high-speed four
channel Serial ATA controller for use in Pentium-class
computers. It achieves burst data transfer rates up to
150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brands of hard
disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB.
Features and Benefits
• Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, rev 1.0
• Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2
• Provides four independent channels to support up
to four Serial ATA drives
• Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel
for host reads and writes
• Co-exists with on-board HDD controllers
• Features Watch Dog timer for fault resiliency
• Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz
• Lower pin count and voltage requirements, plus
better cabling over traditional Parallel ATA (IDE)
make Serial ATA the controller of the future
System Requirements
• Pentium ® class computer with one available PCI
slot
• Windows ® 98SE / ME / NT4.0 / 2000 / XP (32-/64-
bit) / Server 2003 & 2008 (32-/64-bit) / Vista (32-/
64-bit)
• CD-ROM