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User Guide • SC4-CONCERTO • CompactPCI
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Serial CPU Board
Serial ATA Interface (SATA)
The SC4-CONCERTO provides a total of up to ten serial ATA (SATA) ports, derived from up to three
independent SATA controllers. All of these ports support data transfer rates of 6Gbps (600MB/s),
3Gbps (300MB/s) or 1.5Gbps (150MB/s). SATA controllers are located within the CM238 Platform
Controller Hub that holds up to 6 SATA interfaces (depends on the configuration on expansion
interface P-HSE1) and in a separate SATA host controller Marvell 88SE9230, providing four SATA
ports, all 6Gbps capable.
Up to four of the CM238 ports are fed to the high speed expansion connector P-HSE1. This connector
allows the installation of low profile expansion boards like C41-CFAST or C42-SATA to attach the
popular CFast cards or Micro SATA SSDs (1.8-inch) respectively. Another mezzanines are the C47-
MSATA and C48-M2, carriers for two MSATA or M.2 SSD modules, respectively.
The Marvell 88SE9230 is a SATA 6Gbps AHCI/RAID I/O controller connected via two PCI Express lanes
(1GB/s) to the CM238. It supports hardware RAID levels 0, 1 and 10. All of its SATA ports as well as
further two CM238 ports are used to supply the CompactPCI
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Serial SATA interfaces on the
backplane.
A LED named HD located in the front panel, signals disk activity status of any CM238 SATA devices
(green) or 88SE9230 devices (yellow).
Additionally a variety of side cards is available, suitable for mounting on the SC4-CONCERTO in a 4HP
(20.32mm) distance (resulting in 8HP front panel width for the assembly). Some of these side boards
can accommodate a SATA drive, e.g. a 2.5-inch SSD.
Available for download from Intel's web site are drivers for popular operating systems, e.g. Windows
®
8, Windows
®
10 and Linux.
Drivers and software to manage the RAID configuration of the 88SE9230 (Windows
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application) is
provided by Marvell and can be downloaded from EKF’s website.
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