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Intel Desktop Board DX38BT Product Guide

Enhanced IDE Interface

The board’s IDE interface handles the exchange of information between the processor

and peripheral devices such as hard disk drives and CD-ROM drives. The interface

supports:

• Up to two IDE devices (such as hard drives)

• ATAPI-style devices (such as CD-ROM drives)

• Older PIO Mode devices

• Ultra DMA-33 and ATA-66/100 protocols

Serial ATA

Desktop Board DX38BT supports six onboard Serial ATA channels (3.0 Gb/s) via ICH9R

and two eSATA channels (3.0 Gb/s) via a discrete controller.

The six onboard Serial ATA channels provided by ICH9R support the following RAID

(Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels:

• RAID 0 - data striping

• RAID 1 - data mirroring

• RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10) - data striping and data mirroring

• RAID 5 - distributed parity

For information on configuring your system for RAID using Intel

Matrix Storage

Technology see Chapter 4.

Legacy I/O

Desktop Board DX38BT includes an I/O controller that provides the following legacy

I/O features:

• Consumer Infrared (CIR) support

• Low pin count (LPC) interface

• Intelligent power management, including a programmable wake up event interface

• PCI power management support

Expandability

Desktop Board DX38BT provides the following expansion capability:

• Two PCI Express 2.0 x16 ports

• One PCI Express 1.1 x4 port (routed to a x16 connector)

• Two PCI bus connectors