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3 intel® ich7m ide interface, 4 intel® ich7m low pin count (lpc) interface, 5 intel® ich7m pci interface – IEI Integration NANO-9452 v1.12 User Manual

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NANO-9452 EPIC Motherboard

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2.6.3 Intel

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ICH7M IDE Interface

The integrated IDE interface on the ICH7M Southbridge supports two IDE hard disks and

ATAPI devices. PIO IDE transfers up to 16MB/s and Ultra ATA transfers of 100MB/s. The

integrated IDE interface is able to support the following IDE HDDs:

Ultra ATA/33, with data transfer rates up to 33MB/s

Specification

Ultra ATA/33

IDE devices

2

PIO Mode

0 – 4

PIO Max Transfer Rate

16.6 MB/s

DMA/UDMA designation

UDMA 2

DMA/UDMA Max Transfer

33MB/s

Controller Interface

5V

Table 2-3: Supported HDD Specifications

2.6.4 Intel

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ICH7M Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface

The ICH7M LPC interface complies with the LPC 1.1 specifications. The LPC bus from the

ICH7M is connected to the following components:

BIOS

chipset

Super I/O chipset

2.6.5 Intel

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ICH7M PCI Interface

The PCI interface on the ICH7M is compliant with the PCI Revision 2.3 implementation.

Some of the features of the PCI interface are listed below.

PCI Revision 2.3 compliant

33MHz

5V tolerant PCI signals (except PME#)

Integrated PCI arbiter supports up to seven PCI bus masters