Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL and S5000XSL TPS Functional Architecture
Revision 1.7
Intel order number: D41763-008
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Table 9. PCI Express* Slot 6 Riser Setup
LP Riser Type 1 LP Riser Type 0
GPI: ESB2 GPI 28 GPI: ESB2 GPI 27
Slot 6 Setup
1
PCI-E Pin: B48 [RSVD] PCI-E Pin: B49 [GND]
2U Riser, 2 x4 PCI Express* Slots
2
0 1
1U Riser, 1 x8 PCI Express* Slot
3
1 0
Notes:
1. The server board contains a weak pull-up resistor on the two Riser Type nets.
2. The 2U riser card needs to pull-down the PCI Express* pin B48 with a 0 ohm resistor and leave as a No-Connect
(NC) PCI Express* pin B49.
3. The 1U riser card needs to follow the standard PCI Express* Adapter pin-out by leaving pin B48 as a No-Connect
(NC) and pin B49 as ground.
The following table provides the supported bus throughput for the given riser card used and the
number of add-in cards installed:
Table 10. PCI Express* Slot 6 Riser Support
PCI Express* Slot 6 Riser Support 1 add-in card 2 add-in cards
1U Riser Card X8 NA
2U Riser Card X4 X4
Note: There are no population rules for installing a single add-in card in the 2U riser card; a
single add-in card can be installed in either PCI Express* slot.
3.2.2 Serial ATA Support
The ESB2-E has an integrated Serial ATA (SATA) controller that supports independent DMA
operation on six ports and supports data transfer rates of up to 3.0 Gb/s. The six SATA ports on
the server board are numbered SATA-0 through SATA-5. The SATA ports can be
enabled/disabled and/or configured by accessing the BIOS Setup utility during POST.
3.2.2.1 Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology II Support
The on-board storage capability of this server board includes support for Intel
®
Embedded
Server RAID Technology, which provides three standard software RAID levels: data stripping
(RAID Level 0), data mirroring (RAID Level 1), and data stripping with mirroring (RAID Level
10). For higher performance, data stripping can be used to alleviate disk bottlenecks by taking
advantage of the dual independent DMA engines that each SATA port offers. Data mirroring is
used for data security. Should a disk fail, a mirrored copy of the failed disk is brought online.
There is no loss of either PCI resources (request/grant pair) or add-in card slots.
With the addition of an optional Intel
®
RAID Activation Key, Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID
Technology is also capable of providing fault tolerant data stripping (software RAID Level 5),
such that if a SATA hard drive should fail, the lost data can be restored on a replacement drive
from the other drives that make up the RAID 5 pack.
For the location of Intel
®
RAID Activation Key connector, see Figure 2.
Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology functionality requires the following items:
 Intel
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ESB-2 I/O Controller Hub