User Manual

7
Acer AR385 F1 Specifications
Expansion slots
The primary I/O bus for the main board is PCIe Gen2. The following table lists the characteristics
of the PCI-E bus segments.
PCI express Bus Segment Characteristics of PCI Express Topology
Expansion Slot #
# of
slots
Type
Bus
Width
1
Vol.
Con.
Width
Location
Length
PCIe
3
PCIe Gen 2
x8
3.3V
x16
Left
Full height
PCIe
1
PCIe Gen 2
x4
3.3V
x4
Right
Low profile
PCIe
2
PCIe Gen 2
x2
3.3V
x4
Right
Low profile
NOTE:
1. Indicates the number of physical electrical lanes running to a PCIe
®
connector.
2. Default bus assignment (in decimal). Inserting cards with PCI™ bridges may alter the actual bus assignment
number.
3. Slots are enumerated differently based on the operating system. Microsoft® operating systems enumerate Device
ID by bus starting from the lowest bus to the highest.
Storage controller
AMD
®
SP5100 SATA controller
Integrated Serial ATA
controller
Simultaneous drive
transfer channels
6 channels
Transfer rate
synchronous (maximum
theoretical)
3 Gb/s per channel
Data transfer method
Non-RAID mode
RAID mode (Adaptec
®
RAID driver)
Drive support
Serial ATA
Data transfer modes
Legacy mode
Combined mode
Protocol
Serial ATA
Feature
NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface)
RAID levels supported
0, 1, 10
RAID features
 Supports multiple logical volumes
 Supports setup through ROM based array
configuration utility installation scripting
NOTE: This controller requires the software RAID
driver to support hot-plug functions.
RAID OS support
Windows Server
®
2003
Windows Server
®
2008
Windows Server
®
2008 R2
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux 5.4
Novell
®
SuSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server 11
VMWare ESXi
™
4
VMWare ESX
™
4