PC87415

The Enhanced PCI-IDE Interface is a single-chip controller packaged in a 100-pin PQFP. PC87415 provides 2 IDE channels for interfacing up to 4 IDE drives, or 2 IDE drives and CD-ROM directly on the PCI Local bus. An enhanced DMA controller on-chip increases system performance by providing full scatter/gather data transfers between IDE devices and system memory without CPU intervention. Four levels of both write posting and read prefetching per channel of PC87415 allow the host CPU to run concurrently with IDE cycles. Programmable timing functions provide maximum flexibility of timing parameters per drive for optimizing the data transfer rate per drive. Both PC compatible addressing and PCI compliant addressing are supported by re-mapping the base addresses. A power control feature allows turning off power to the IDE cables.

The Enhanced PCI-IDE Interface connection to the PCI bus is virtually ``glue-less'', with only one additional TTL data buffer (optional). This high-integration solution reduces component count, eases board design, reduces cost and increases reliability.

The Enhanced PCI-IDE supports faster ATA devices using PIO modes 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well as DMA modes 0, 1, and 2. It comes with a full suite of software drivers for DOS 5.0± 6.x, WindowsÉ 3.x, WindowsÉ 95, Windows NTTM, OS/2 2.x, NovellÉ NetWareTM 3.1x±4.x, and SCO UNIXÉ 3.x.