Serial Attached Scsi/Serial Ata; Patsburg Dynamic Sku'ing - QUANTA W Mainboard Series S210-MBT2W Technical Manual

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[1.3.81] Serial Attached SCSI/Serial ATA

[1.3.82] Serial Attached SCSI /
Serial ATA
[1.3.83] The Thurley platform had 6 SATA 3Gbps ports from
ICH10. For Romley with Patsburg -A, 4 SATA 6Gbps ports is
available as the base SKU from PBG RHS SCU0 (ports3:0).
An upgrade option is available through Dynamic SKU'ing Key to
support 4 additional SATA 6Gbps ports from PBG RHS SCU1
(ports7:4), providing a total of 8 SATA 6Gbps ports. There are
additional SATA Ports from the PBG LHS AHCI (ports 5:0).
Four of the 3Gbps SATA ports (ports 5:2) from PBG LHS are
currently unused. The two remaining SATA ports (ports1:0) are
6Gbps and need to connect to 7-pin SATA Gen3 connectors.
Other upgrade options are also available that provide either 4
or 8 SAS 6Gbps ports from the PBG RHS SCU[1:0]. Refer to
for details on the SATA ports available with the different Pats-
burg SKUs.

[1.3.84] Patsburg Dynamic SKU'ing

[1.3.85] In general for all 7 keys as well as the "no key" case,
"basic" SW RAID is enabled in all cases. "Basic SW RAID"
includes RAID 0/1/10 from both LSI and RSTe for all SATA ports
(4 or 8 from the SCU and 2 from the ACHI - although RAID10 is
not supported on the ACHI ports since there are only 2 ports
and RAID 10 requires more than 2 ports) and for all 8 SAS ports
from the SCU. In addition Basic SW RAID also includes RSTe
SW RAID 5 for the first 4 SATA only ports from the SCU and
support for the second 4 SCU SATA only ports is expected to
be confirmed as supported soon. The user has to choose to
use either LSI or RSTe on the ACHI ports (can't mix w/in the
ACHI) and the user has to choose to use either LSI or RSTe on
the SCU ports (can't mix w/in the SCU). Currently our BIOS
would allow the user to choose a different RAID vendor on the
ACHI vs. on the SCU, but we are working to modify BIOS so
that it forces the user to chose a single RAID vendor (LSI or
RSTe) for all ports that originate in Patsburg (ACHI + SCU).
Below are the 8 SKU's (1xNoKey and 7xkey) that are POR
today:
NoKey - 4 SCU based SATA only Ports (No PSB ROM, No

LSI ROM)
Key #1 - 4 SCU based SATA only Ports w/ LSI SW RAID5

added (No PSB ROM, Yes LSI ROM)
Key #2 - 8 SCU based SATA only Ports (Yes PSB ROM

#9, No LSI ROM)
Key #3 - 8 SCU based SATA only Ports w/ LSI SW RAID5

added (Yes PSB ROM #9, Yes LSI ROM)
Key #4 - 4 SCU based SAS/SATA Ports (Yes PSB ROM

#1, No LSI ROM)
Key #5 - 4 SCU based SAS/SATA Ports w/ LSI SW RAID5

added (Yes PSB ROM #1, Yes LSI ROM)
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