5-12 Floppy, Sas And Sata Ports - Supero SuperWorkstation 7046A-6 User Manual

5-12 Floppy, SAS and SATA Ports

Floppy Connector
The fl oppy connector is located be-
tween the COM port and FireWire
headers on the motherboard. See the
table on the right for pin defi nitions.
Note the following when connecting
the fl oppy cable:
•
The fl oppy disk drive cable has
seven twisted wires.
•
A red mark on a wire typically des-
ignates the location of pin 1.
•
A single fl oppy disk drive ribbon
cable has 34 wires and two con-
nectors to provide for two fl oppy
disk drives. The connector with
twisted wires always connects to
drive A, and the connector that
does not have twisted wires al-
ways connects to drive B.
SATA Ports
Six Serial ATA (SATA) ports (I-SATA
0~5) are located on the serverboard to
provide serial link connections. Serial
Link connections provide faster data
transmission than those of the tradi-
tional Parallel ATA. These SATA ports
are supported by the Intel ICH10R
Chip (South Bridge). See the table on
the right for pin defi nitions.
SAS Ports
A
n LSI 2008 SAS2 controller provides eight SAS ports on the X8DA6. To confi gure
LSI SAS RAID settings, please refer to the LSI SAS RAID User Guide posted on
our Web site @http://www.supermicro.com/support/manuals/.
Chapter 5: Advanced Serverboard Setup
Floppy Drive Connector
Pin Defi nitions
Pin# Defi nition
1 Ground
3 Ground
5 Key
7 Ground
9 Ground
11 Ground
13 Ground
15 Ground
17 Ground
19 Ground
21 Ground
23 Ground
25 Ground
27 Ground
29 Ground
31 Ground
33 Ground
SATA Port
Pin Defi nitions
Pin # Defi nition
1 Ground
2 TXP
3 TXN
4 Ground
5 RXN
6 RXP
7 Ground
5-23
Pin # Defi nition
2 FDHDIN
4 Reserved
6 FDEDIN
8 Index
10 Motor Enable
12 Drive Select B
14 Drive Select B
16 Motor Enable
18 DIR
20 STEP
22 Write Data
24 Write Gate
26 Track 00
28 Write Protect
30 Read Data
32 Side 1 Select
34 Diskette