Infrared (Ir) Connections - FIC VA-502 Manual

With the integrated Enhanced PCI Bus Master IDE controller you can
connect up to four Enhanced IDE peripheral devices to your system. All
devices are categorized in the same way that IDE hard disks were
configured in the past, with one device set as the master device and the
other as the slave device. We recommend that Hard Disk Drives use the
primary IDE connector and that CD-ROM Drives utilize the secondary IDE
connector for optimum system performance.

Infrared (IR) Connections

This mainboard features support for highly-sophisticated SIR technology, which
allows bi-directional and cordless data transactions with other IrDA compliant
computers and peripheral devices using infrared as a medium. This transmission
is carried out in either Full Duplex Mode or Half Duplex Mode. The former
allows simultaneous data transmission and reception, while the latter disables
the reception when transmission occurs.
The I/O chipset on this mainboard features a SIR interface that is fully
compliant with the IrDA standard. An IrDA device can be installed via a 9-pin
D-type connector in the rear panel of the computer which is linked by a cable
to the onboard IrDA pinhead.
The serial port COM2 on this mainboard is designed to be a SIR compliant
port. If you wish to install the SIR connection feature, you need to adjust the
BIOS option for high-speed performance.
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