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Intel Desktop Board DP35DP Technical Product Specification

1.6.3

Serial ATA Interfaces

The board provides five Serial ATA (SATA) connectors, which support one device per

connector. The board also provides one red-colored external Serial ATA (eSATA)

connector.

1.6.3.1

Serial ATA Support

The DP35DP Desktop Board’s Serial ATA controller offers six independent Serial ATA

ports with a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 3 Gbits/sec per port. One device

can be installed on each port for a maximum of six Serial ATA devices. A point-to-

point interface is used for host to device connections, unlike Parallel ATA IDE which

supports a master/slave configuration and two devices per channel.

For compatibility, the underlying Serial ATA functionality is transparent to the

operating system. The Serial ATA controller can operate in both legacy and native

modes. In legacy mode, standard IDE I/O and IRQ resources are assigned (IRQ 14

and 15). In Native mode, standard PCI Conventional bus resource steering is used.

Native mode is the preferred mode for configurations using the Windows* XP and

Windows Vista operating systems.

NOTE

Many Serial ATA drives use new low-voltage power connectors and require adapters or

power supplies equipped with low-voltage power connectors.

For more information, see: http://www.serialata.org/

For information about

Refer to

The location of the Serial ATA connectors

Figure 10, page 42

1.6.3.2

Serial ATA RAID

The DP35DP Desktop Board supports 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

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