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Chapter 4: Motherboard Connections
I-SATA 3.0 and S-SATA 3.0 Ports
The X11DPU-V has eight I-SATA 3.0 ports (I-SATA0-3, I-SATA4-7) which are supported by
the Intel® C621 chipset. In addition, it also has six S-SATA 3.0 ports (S-SATA0-3, S-SATA4/
S-SATA5) that are supported by the Intel® SCU. S-SATA4/S-SATA5 can be used with
Supermicro SuperDOMs which are yellow SATA DOM connectors with power pins built in,
and do not require external power cables. Supermicro SuperDOMs are backward-compatible
with regular SATA HDDs or SATA DOMs that need external power cables.
SATA 3.0 Port
Pin Definitions
Pin#
Signal
1
Ground
2
SATA_TXP
3
SATA_TXN
4
Ground
5
SATA_RXN
6
SATA_RXP
7
Ground
RAID Key Header
A H/W RAID key is required to install on this RAID Key header for supporting RAID settings
for NVMe connections. Please contact Supermicro at
www.supermicro.com
to purchase the
H/W RAID key for this header.
Front VGA Port
One VGA port is located at JVGA2 on the motherboard. This VGA port provides front
accessible video display.
RAID Key Header
Pin Definitions
Pin#
Definition
1
Ground
2
RAID_KEY_PU
3
Ground
4
PCH_RAID_KEY
Internal Speaker/Buzzer
The Internal Speaker/Buzzer (SP1) is used to provide audible indications for various beep
codes. See the table below for pin definitions.
Internal Buzzer
Pin Definitions
Pin#
Definition
1
Pos (+)
Beep In
2
Neg (-)
Alarm Speaker
