HP Vectra XU 6/XXX HP Vectra VT 6/xxx, Familiarization guide - Page 13

1 Product Overview and Features Product Features The D2992B quadruple-speed (4!) SCSI CD-ROM drive is provided on the HP Vectra XU 6/xxx PC. The D2896-63301 quadruple-speed (4!) IDE CDROM drive is provided on the HP Vectra VT 6/xxx PC. There are two dedicated internal shelves for 3.5-inch (slim) hard disks. More hard disks can be installed in the five front accessible shelves (two slim top shelves, 1-inch high, for 3.5-inch devices, and three half-height bottom shelves, 1.6-inch high, for 5.25-inch devices). For front access drives, 5.25-inch disk drive mounting rails (D2880A) and 3.5-inch disk drive mounting rails (D3566A) can be ordered. LAN Controller Board On the HP Vectra XU 6/xxx PC, the HP 10/100 VG Selectable PC LAN Adapter (J2585A) board is installed in a PCI accessory slot. It supports both the IEEE 802.12 standard (100 VG-AnyLAN, giving a data transfer rate of 100 Mbits per second over voice grade cable), and the IEEE 802.3 standard (10BaseT, giving a data transfer rate of 10 Mbits per second). The XU/VT Drivers and Documentation CD-ROM includes the diagnostic DOS utility called HPVGSet. The Network Administrator's Guide, and the HP 10/100VG Selectable PC LAN Adapters installation guide (59632665) are also available, in the formats shown in the table on page 11. Other Accessory Boards There are four slots on the PCI bus for accessory boards. One of these is already occupied by the video controller board, and a second (on the HP Vectra XU 6/xxx PC) by the LAN interface board. The fourth slot is a combination PCI/ISA bus slot. ISA Bus Devices • Ultra I/O controller • audio controller • flash ROM • other accessory boards. Ultra I/O Controller The Ultra I/O chip supports the following: Ì two serial communications ports (RS-232-C, 16550 UART buffered) Ì one parallel communications port (bidirectional, multi-mode) Ì flexible drive controller (FDC) Ì real time clock (RTC) Ì keyboard and mouse controller. 9