Design and Environmental Specifications

Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL and S5000XSL TPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLOT 6 SETUP 1

 

LP Riser TYPE 1

LP Riser Type 0

 

 

 

GPI:

ESB2 GPI 28

GPI:

ESB2 GPI 27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCI-E Pin:

B48 [RSVD]

PCI-E Pin:

B49 [GND]

 

 

2U

Riser, 2 x4

PCI Express* Slots2

 

 

0

 

1

 

 

1U

Riser, 1 x8

PCI Express* Slot3

 

 

1

 

0

 

Notes:

1The server board contains a weak pull-up resistor on the two Riser Type nets.

2The 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.

3The 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.

PCI Express* Slot 6 Riser

1 add-in card

2 add-in cards

Support

 

 

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.

3.2.2Serial 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 thru SATA-5. The SATA ports can be enabled/disabled and/or configured by accessing the BIOS Setup utility during POST.

3.2.2.1Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II Support

The onboard 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 on-line.

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.

See Figure 2 Major Board Components for the location of Intel RAID Activation Key connector location.

Note: Availability of the Intel RAID Activation Key to support software RAID 5 will be deferred until after product launch of this server board.

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Revision 1.2

 

Intel order number: D41763-003