Intel SRCSATAWB manual SATA Features of the 1078 Controller

•Redundancy through:

—Configuration stored in nonvolatile RAM and on the drives (COD).

—Hot-swap support.

—Optional battery backup for cache memory. Controller provides fast or trickle charges.

SATA Features of the 1078 Controller

•Provides eight independent phys, each supporting 3.0 Gbps SATA data transfers.

•Scalable interface that supports up to 16 physical devices and 64 logical devices via expanders.

•Supports SSP to enable communication with other SATA devices.

•Supports SMP to communicate topology management information.

•Supports single PHY or wide ports consisting of 2, 3, or 4 PHY within one quad port.

•Allows addressing of multiple SATA targets through an expander if using SATA 2.0- compliant hard disk drives.

•Allows multiple initiators to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through an expander.

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