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1.6.3.2 SATA Interfaces
The board provides six SATA connectors through the PCH, which support one device
per connector:
Five internal SATA connectors (black)
One eSATA connector (red) on the back panel for external connectivity
The Intel ICH10R SATA controller provides independent SATA ports with a theoretical
maximum transfer rate of 3 Gb/s per port. A point-to-point interface is used for host
to device connections.
For compatibility, the underlying SATA functionality is transparent to the operating
system. The SATA controller supports IDE and AHCI (Microsoft Windows Vista* only)
configuration and can operate in both legacy and native modes. In legacy mode,
standard ATA I/O and IRQ resources are assigned (IRQ 14 and 15). In Native mode,
standard Conventional PCI bus resource steering is used. Native mode is the
preferred mode for configurations using the Windows* XP and Windows Vista
operating systems.
For information about Refer to
Obtaining AHCI driver Section 1.3, page 14
The location of the SATA connectors Figure 10, page 42
1.6.3.2.1 Serial ATA RAID
The board supports the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology which provides the following
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) levels:
RAID 0 - data striping
RAID 1 - data mirroring
RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10) - data striping and mirroring
RAID 5 - distributed parity
1.6.3.2.2 Intel
®
Rapid Recover Technology
The board incorporates the Intel
®
Rapid Recover Technology (Intel
®
RRT). Intel
®
Rapid Recover Technology is a feature of Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager. It uses
RAID 1 (mirroring) functionality to copy data from a designated master drive to a
designated recovery drive. The master drive data can be copied to the recovery drive
either continuously or on request.
When using the continuous update policy, changes made to the data on the master
drive while the recovery drive is disconnected or offline are automatically copied to the
recovery drive when it is reconnected. When using the on request update policy, the
master drive data can be restored to a previous state by copying the data on the
recovery drive back to the master drive.
For information about Refer to
Intel
®
Matrix Storage and Intel
®
Rapid Recovery Technology http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/
matrixstorage_sb.htm