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Hardware Interfaces (Aptiva 2170/71/72 - SL-A)



Hardware Interfaces

The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are supported in the system unit.

Item- Interface
Expansion slot for I/O
adapter cards
Three PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) v2.1
compatible expansion slots that operates at 33 MHz bus speed.
One IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion slot that
operates at 8 MHz bus speed.
Note: There is 1 PCI/ISA shared slot
Hard disk drives Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0 compatible
hard disk drive interfaces that support:
- PIO mode up to 5 mode
- DMA 32-bit access
Machine Type 2170
- Ultra 33/66 Synchronous DMA (33M/66M bytes/sec.).
Machine Type 2171 and 2172
- Ultra 33 Synchronous DMA (33M bytes/sec).
CD/DVD-ROM/CD-R/W drive 5.25-in. high-performance, 40X CD-ROM or 6X/32X DVD-ROM
or 4X2X24 CD-R/W IDE/AT drive.
Support Bootable CD-ROM Format specification version 1.0.
Compliant to Audio-CD, Video-CD, CD-ROM/XA, Karaoke-CD,
and Photo-CD (both single and multi-session) format.
Diskette drive AT diskette interface
Video Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal
System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.
Support Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
Modem One 56.6 Kbps PCI modem adapter card with
data/fax/voice or non-voice features.
Audio Compatible to Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and
Windows Sound System
Pointing device IBM PS/2-compatible mouse
Keyboard device IBM PS/2-compatible keyboard
Serial port Machine Type 2170
Supports one high speed NS 16C550 compatible UARTs with
send/receive 16 bytes FIFOs
Machine Type 2171 and 2172
Support two high speed NS 16C550 compatible UARTs with
send/receive 16 bytes FIFOs
RS232D electrical interface compliant
Parallel port Supports SPP (IBM PC/XT, PC/AT, PS/2) compatible, EPP
(IEEE 1284 compliance), ECP (IEEE 1284 compliance)
interface.
IEEE 1284 compliant
Game port Game port interface for joystick.
It also supports MIDI.
USB Supports Universal HCI Specification for USB 1.0


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