Asus A8R-MVP User Manual

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Serial ATA I/II technology

The motherboard supports the Serial ATA II 3 Gb/s technology through the
Serial ATA interfaces and the ULI M1575 Southbridge. The Serial ATA II 3
Gb/s specification provides twice the bandwidth of the current Serial ATA
products with a host of new features, including Native Command Queueing
(NCQ), and Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm. Serial ATA
allows for thinner, more flexible cables with lower pin count, reduced voltage
requirement. See page 2-22 for details.

SATA RAID solution

Onboard RAID controllers provide the motherboard with RAID functionality.
The ULI M1575 Southbridge allows RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and
JBOD configuration. See page 5-25 for details.

Gigabit LAN

The motherboard comes with the Marvell

Yukon

™

88E8001 Gigabit LAN

controller to meet your growing networking needs. See pages 2-19 and
5-10 for details.

IEEE 1394a support

The IEEE 1394a interface provides high-speed and flexible PC connectivity
to a wide range of peripherals and devices compliant to IEEE 1394a
standards. The IEEE 1394a interface allows up to 400 Mbps transfer rates
through simple, low-cost, high-bandwidth asynchronous (real-time) data
interfacing between computers, peripherals, and consumer electronic
devices such as camcorders, VCRs, printers,TVs, and digital cameras. See
pages 2-19 and 2-26 for details.

USB 2.0 technology

The motherboard implements the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
specification, dramatically increasing the connection speed from the
12 Mbps bandwidth on USB 1.1 to a fast 480 Mbps on USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is
backward compatible with USB 1.1. See pages 2-20 and 2-24 for details.