SUPER MICRO Computer H8DMT user manual Drive Connections, Enabling Sata RAID, Sata Ports

Chapter 2: Installation

Color	Status	Definition
Green	Solid	InfiniBand Connected
Off	Off	No Connection
Color	Status	Definition
Yellow	Solid	InfiniBand Active
Yellow	Dim	InfiniBand Connected, Activity Idle
Off	Off	No Connection

2-9 Drive Connections

There are no IDE or floppy drive connectors on the motherboard. Use the following information to connect the SATA drive cables.

SATA Ports

There are no jumpers to configure the SATA ports, which are designated SATA0 through SATA3. See the table below for pin definitions.

Pin#	Description
1	Ground
2	TXP
3	TXN
4	Ground
5	RXN
6	RXP
7	Ground

2-10 Enabling SATA RAID

Now that the hardware is set up, you must install the operating system and the SATA RAID drivers, if you wish to use RAID with your SATA drives. The installation procedure differs depending on whether you wish to have the operating system installed on a RAID Serial ATA (SATA)

Serial ATA (SATA) is a physical storage interface that employs a single cable with a minimum of four wires to create a point-to-point connection between devices. This connection is a serial link that supports a SATA transfer rate from 150 MBps. The serial cables used in SATA are thinner than the traditional cables used in Parallel ATA (PATA) and can extend up to one meter in length, compared to only 40 cm for PATA cables. Overall, SATA provides better functionality than PATA.

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