Installation Guide
Installation
eSATA 1.5Gbps 1 external + 1 internal port Low prole PCI card
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GIC711SW6
PART NO. M0559
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Features 5
Package Contents 6
Software Installation 7
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 11
CE Statement 13
Limited Warranty 14
Contact 15
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Introduction
The Low Prole Serial ATA 2 Channel PCI Host Adapter can support both Low prole PCI and standard
size PCI. It provides a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and dual Serial ATA ports on the
device side to access SATA storage media such as: hard disk drives, ZIP drives, CD-ROMs, CD-RWs
and DVD-ROMs. The board supports 32-bit 33/66 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2 and has a Serial ATA
transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s.
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Features
PCI Interface
Compliant with PCI Specication, revision 2.2 •
Integrated PCI DMA engines •
32 bit, 33/66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface•
High Speed Serial ATA Interface
Dual high speed Serial ATA interface Channels, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates •
(1.5Gb/s)
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specications •
Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver •
Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes •
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