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Hardware Interfaces
The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are
supported in the system unit.
Table 1- 1 System Board Hardware Interfaces
Item Interface
Expansion slot
for I/O adapter
cards
Machine Type 2137:
Three PCI (peripheral component interconnect) v2.1
compatible expansion slots that operates up to 33 MHz
bus speed
Four IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion
slots that operates at 8 MHz bus speed.
Machine Type 2138:
Four PCI v2.1 compatible expansion slots that operates
up to 33 MHz bus speed
Two IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible expansion
slots that operates at 8 MHz bus speed.
Hard disk drives Two PCI local bus Enhanced IDE v1.0 compatible hard
disk drive interfaces that support PIO mode 3/4 and
DMA 32-bit access.
CD-ROM drive 5.25-in. high-performance, sixteen-speed (16X), or
twenty four-speed (24X) CD-ROM 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.
For refresh rates and monitor frequency settings, see
"Refresh Rates and Monitor Frequencies" on page 1-14
Machine Type 2138:
Support Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) to enhance
3D graphical display performance.