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Chapter 1: Introduction
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The Super I/O supports one PC-compatible printer port (SPP), Bi-directional Printer
Port (BPP) , Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) or Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).
The Super I/O provides functions that comply with ACPI (Advanced Confi guration
and Power Interface), which includes support of legacy and ACPI power manage-
ment through a SMI or SCI function pin. It also features auto power management
to reduce power consumption.
The IRQs, DMAs and I/O space resources of the Super I/O can be fl exibly adjusted
to meet ISA PnP requirements, which support ACPI and APM (Advanced Power
Management).
1-7 UIO
The H8QI6/i-F is a specially-designed serverboard that features Supermicro's
UIO (Universal I/O) technology. UIO serverboards have a PCI-Express x4 and
x8 signals that can support PCI-E cards or any one of several types of UIO card
types to add SAS ports, additional LAN ports, Infi niband®, etc. to the serverboard.
This allows the user to tailor the serverboard to their own needs.