IBM Motherboard DJ800 User Manual
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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:
Serial ATA PIN Assignments
Pin
1
2
3
4
Description
GND
TXP
TXN
GND
5
6
7
RXN
RXP
GND
Serial ATA Drive Conncetors
2-12
RAID Type
Description
RAID 0
Striping: high performance, designed to connect mul
tiple drives to act as one
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 fail-over
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.
This Mainboard features six Serial ATA ports for six Serial ATA devices.