Pc Cards; 32-Bit Cardbus & Zoomed Video Port - Asus P6300 Series User Manual

PC Cards

The Notebook PC has two PC Card sockets designed to interface with two Type I or Type II cards, or
stacked to accommodate one Type III card. It allows you to expand and customize your computer to
meet a wide range of application needs. The PC Cards standard accommodates a number of function,
communication or data storage expansion options such as Memory/Flash Cards, FAX/Modems, Hard
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Disks, and Networking Adapters.The Notebook PC fully supports PCMCIA 2.1, 32-bit CardBus, and
Zoomed Video Port. The lower one is called socket 1, upper one is socket 2.
Socket 2
Socket 1
Figure 4-2 : The PC Cards Sockets
32-bit CardBus & Zoomed Video Port
The Zoomed Video feature is only supported by the lower socket 1.
The CardBus allows PC Cards and their hosts to use 32-bit bus mastering and operate at speeds of up to
33MHz, transferring data in burst modes comparable with PCI's 132MB per second. By comparison, the
standard 16-bit PC Card bus can handle only 20MB per second. The Notebook PC is equipped with CardBus'
broader, faster data pathway will be able to handle bandwidth-hungry operations that are cutting-edge even
for desktop systems, such as 100Mbps Fast Ethernet, Fast SCSI peripherals, and ISDN-based video
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conferencing. The CardBus peripherals must be hot-swappable and support plug and play too.