Chapter 2
J66, J67, J68, J69 Serial ATA Connector
DJ800 supports up to 6 SATA devices each with data at transfer rates of 150MB/s. Two Serial ATA ports supported by ICH5R, and four Serial ATA ports supported by Adaptec 8110. Adaptec 8110 also supports RAID configurations. RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent De- vices” and provides different levels of safety, redundancy and performance. This chipset supports RAID 0, 1, and 10, which are defined as follows:
RAID Type | Description |
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RAID 0 | Striping: high performance, designed to connect mul |
| tiple drives to act as one |
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RAID 1 | Mirroring: writes data to two drives at once in case one |
| drive fails, the other one will be a complete replica and |
| can continue on. Full |
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RAID 10 | Combination of RAID 0 and 1: over 4 drives, The drives |
| are split in half and striped together, and the 2 new st- |
| riped drives are then mirrored. |
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This Mainboard features six Serial ATA ports for six Serial ATA devices.
Serial ATA Drive Conncetors
Serial ATA PIN Assignments
Pin | Description |
1GND
2TXP
3TXN
4GND
5RXN
6RXP
7GND