SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 User Manual

SUPER

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AOC-SAT2-MV8

USER'S GUIDE

Rev. 1.0

AOC-SAT2-MV8 User's Guide

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction..................................................................4

1.1. Overview..................................................................................4

1.2. Technical Specifications.......................................................... 5

1.3. LED Indicators and Pin Definitions ........................................ 7

1.4. Connectors and Pin Definitions .............................................. 8

2. Safety Guidelines.........................................................9

3. Installing the SAT2-MV8 Driver....................................10

3.1. Creating the driver floppy disk .............................................10

3.2. Adding the Driver into an Existing System.........................10

3.3. Installing the driver into a new system ..............................12

4. Troubleshooting.................................................... ..... 18

5. Contacting Supermicro............................................... 21

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1. Introduction

This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and
knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate Supermicro's SAT2-MV8
SATA Controller into their system. It provides detailed information for the
installation and use of the SAT2-MV8 card. The Supermicro SAT2-MV8 of­fers an innovative, complete and cost effective solution to the ever-increas­ing demands of disk density and data integrity of today's servers.

1.1 Overview

The SAT2-MV8 is a highly efficient, highly compatible and easy-to-use SATA
RAID Controller that allows the user to configure RAID functions by using
Marvell's 88SX6081 8-port Serial ATA Host Controller, offering 64-bit PCI-X
bus interface with high performance features. With the SATA physical
interface support at 1.5 and 3.0 Gbps, the SAT2-MV8 is a high speed, high
bandwidth RAID Controller that can integrate multiple high capacity drives to
provide the user with maximum storage space.

Product Features

• Low profile Form Factor (w/ the PCB size of 2.5" H x 6.4" W)

• Marvell's 88SX6081 8-port Serial ATA Host Controller

• Eight SATA ports @ 1.5 or 3.0 Gigabits per second (Gbps)

• 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X bus

• Flash BIOS Interface

• Presence LED Indicator and Activity Indicator for each port

• Software RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD (-simple volume) supported
(*Note: Some operating systems might not support Software RAID.)

• Bootability from a single drive.

Operating Systems supported

• Windows 2000, XP, 2003, XP EM64T, 2003 EM64T

• Linux: (-source code provided)--the driver disks currently available:

• RedHat 9 (2.4.20-6 and 2.4.20-8)

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 2, Update 3, and Update 4.

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 EM64T/X86_64 Update 3 and Update 4.

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 EM64T/X86_64.

• SuSE 9.1, 9.2 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

• Fedora Core 3.

An Important Note to the User

• All images and layouts shown in this user's guide were based upon
the latest revision available at the time of publishing. The card you've
received may or may not look exactly the same as the ones shown in
this manual.

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Technical Specifications

1.2 Technical Specifications

SAT2-MV8 Card Layout and Jumper Locations

Front view

C

Pin 1

SATA I2C

50CN3

6.4”

2

SATA I

JS10

LCX

16373

Pin 1

SAT2-MV8

Rev. 1.0

88SX6081

Marvell SATA
Controller

SATA

CTLR

SATA

3.14”

bracket

Act.7 LED

Act.6 LED

ACT 7

ACT 6

PRE 6

PRE7

LVC245A

PRE. 6 LED

PRE. 7 LED

Act.5 LED

Act.3 LED

Act.4 LED

ACT 5

ACT 4

ACT 3

PRE 3

PRE 4

PRE 5

LVC245A

PRE. 5 LED

PRE. 4 LED

PRE. 3 LED

Act.0 LED

Act.1 LED

Act.2 LED

Ext. ACT LED

ACT 2

ACT 1

ACT0

PRE 0

PRE 2

PRE 1

PRE. 0 LED

PRE. 1 LED

PRE. 2 LED

Ext.Act.LED

JS9

BIOS Chip

SATA 4

JS3

SATA 4

JS2

SATA 2

JS1

SATA 0

SATA 0

SATA 5

SATA 5

SATA 3

SATA 3

SATA 1

SATA 1

JS8

JS7

SATA 7

SATA6

SATA 6SATA 7

PCI X 133

Rear view

bracket

Rear View

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Front view (SAT2-MV8 w/Full-Height Bracket)

Full-Height bracket

ACT 2

PRE 2

ACT 1

PRE 1

ACT0

PRE 0

Ext. ACT LED

4.75”

ACT 7

PRE 6

PRE7

LVC245A

ACT 6

PRE 5

ACT 5

ACT 4

PRE 4

LVC245A

ACT 3

PRE 3

JS9

BIOS Chip

SATA I2C

JS10

50CN3

6.4”

LCX

SAT2-MV8

Rev. 1.0

16373

88SX6081

Marvell SATA
Controller

JS3

SATA 5

SATA 4

JS2

SATA 3

SATA 2

2.5”

JS1

SATA 1

SATA 0

Front view (SAT2-MV8 w/Low-Profile Bracket)

Low-Profile bracket

ACT 7

ACT 6

ACT 5

PRE 4

PRE 5

PRE 6

PRE7

3.14”

LVC245A

LVC245A

ACT 4

ACT 3

PRE 3

ACT 2

PRE 2

PRE 1

ACT 1

PRE 0

Ext. ACT LED

ACT0

SATA I2C

JS9

BIOS Chip

JS10

50CN3

LCX

6.4”

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SAT2-MV8 Rev. 1.0

16373

88SX6081

Marvell SATA
Controller

JS3

SATA 5

SATA 4

JS2

SATA 3

SATA 2

2.5”

JS1

SATA 1

SATA 0

LED Indicators and Pin Definitions

1.3 LED Indicators and Pin Definitions

SATA Presence LED
Indicators

Serial ATA Presence LED Indica­tors (DS0-DS7) indicate the pres­ence of SATA ports (0-7). See the
Table on the right for pin defini­tions.

SATA Activity LED
Indicators

Serial ATA Activity LED Indicators
(DS8-DS15) indicate the activity
status of SATA ports (0-7). See
the table on the right for pin defini­tions.

SATA Presence LED Indidators

Pin Definitions (DS0-DS7)

DS # Definition

DS0 SATA0_Present
DS1 SATA1_Present
DS2 SATA2_Present
DS3 SATA3_Present

SATA Activity LED Indidators

Pin Definitions (DS8-DS15)

DS# Definition
DS8 SATA0_Act
DS9 SATA1_Act
DS10 SATA2_Act
DS11 SATA3_Act

DS# Definition

DS4 SATA4_Present
DS5 SATA5_Present
DS6 SATA6_Present
DS7 SATA7_Present

DS# Definition
DS12 SATA4_Act
DS13 SATA5_Act
DS14 SATA6_Act
DS15 SATA7_Act

(*Refer to the layout on Page 5 for the locations of Connectors and
the LED Indicators.)

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1.4 Connectors and Pin Definitions

Extended Activity LED
Connectors

Extended Activity LED Connector
(JS9) indicates the status of Ex­tended Activity of SATA ports.
This connector is only compatible
with Supermicro's SATA panel
and requires SATA Cables such
as CBL-0069, CBL-0055, CBL­0056, or CBL-0057 installed to
function properly.

RAID SMB (I2 C) Connector

RAID SMB I2 C Connector (JS10),
monitors the status of RAID for
Serial ATA ports. See the table
on the right for pin definitions.

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C

8K

Extended ACT. LED Pin

Definitions (JS9)

Pin#

1-8

Activity Output for
Common Ground

C
K

3

SATA RAID I2C Pin

Definitions (JS10)

Pin#

1
2
3

7

Definition

Drives 0-7

Unused

1

2

Definition

Data

Ground

Clock

23

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1

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SATA Connections

The following onboard connectors
(JS1-3, JS7-8) support Serial ATA
Ports (#0-7). See the table on the
right for detailed information.

JS1 SATA Ports 0, 1
JS2 SATA Ports 2, 3
JS3 SATA Ports 4, 5

SATA Port Connections

(JS 1-3, JS 7-8)

JS# Port#

JS# Port#
JS7 SATA Port 6
JS8 SATA Port 7

(*Refer to the layout on Page 5 for the locations of Connectors and
the LED Indicators.)

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Safety Guidelines

2. Safety Guidelines

To avoid personal injury and property damage, please carefully
follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your

system or handling the components:

ESD Safety Guidelines

Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To
prevent damage to your system. it is important to handle it very carefully. The
following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from
ESD.

• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.

• Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the
antistatic bag.

• Handle the RAID card by its edges only; do not touch its components,
peripheral chips, memory modules or gold contacts.

• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.

• Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in
use.

General Safety Guidelines

• Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any com­ponents from the computer, including the RAID card.

• Use only the correct type of bracket for the chassis. Please use a full­height bracket for a 1U, 3U, 4U, Tower, or a Pedestal system. Use a low­profile bracket for a 2U or some of the proprietary chassis. Make sure to
secure the bracket in the host system cabinet. (*Note: When used in a 1U
system, the card with a full-height bracket is mounted into the riser card.)

• Disconnect the power cable before removing the Extended LED, data or
I2C cables from the riser card.

• Make sure that the card is securely seated in the PCI slot to prevent
damage to the system due to power shortage.

• Do not force a cable connector onto the controller or a drive.

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3. Installing the SAT2-MV8 Driver

3.1 Creating the driver floppy disk:

A CDROM that contains the drivers for the Windows OS, Linux OS, and the
Controller BIOS is included in the shipping package. Please locate the
CDROM before installing the driver. (*Note: this CDROM does not perform
Auto-boot or auto-play.)

For the Windows 32-bit Operating System:

• Copy all files from the folder: \Windows_3_4_1\build\Windows\i386\Free
into a blank, formatted floppy disk.

For the Windows 64-bit Operating System:

• Copy all files from the folder: \Windows_3_4_1\build\Windows\amd64
\Free into a blank, formatted floppy disk.

For the Linux Operating System:

For an existing system:

• Use the source code from the folder: \Linux_3_4_0 to compile.

For a new system:

• Use the tool- rawwritewin.exe to write the driver images stored in the
folder: \DiskImag\linux to create a driver disk. (*Note: The folder­\DiskImag\linux is included in Supermicro's CD ROM that came with your
shipping. However, the file-rawwritewin.exe is not included.)

3.2 Adding the driver into an existing system

(*Note: An existing system is a system that has an operating system
already installed and the SAT2-MV8 driver is being installed as a
Secondary Controller.)

For the Windows Operating System

a. Install the controller and make sure that the BIOS screen as shown be-

low displays:

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Installing the SAT2-MV8 Driver

b. Start the Windows OS. The Windows OS will launch the "Found New

Hardware Wizard" and search for the installer driver.

c. Insert the driver floppy disk that you've created into the floppy drive,

select the floppy drive as the source, and press the <enter> key.
d. Continue clicking <Next> until the driver is successfully installed.
e. Remove the driver disk from the FDD drive and restart the system to

complete the installation process.

For the Linux Operating System

a. Insert the CDROM that contains the Linux OS driver in the CD drive.
b. At the # prompt, type: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and press <enter> to

mount the CDROM directory into the system directory.
c. At the # prompt, type: cd /mnt/cdrom/Linux_3_4_0 and press <enter> to

change the directory to the CDROM directory.
d. Read the README.txt file and exit.
e. At the # prompt, type: cd /mnt/cdrom/Linux_3_4_0/Docs/ and press <en-

ter>.
f. Read the documents included carefully and follow the instructions given

to create the driver and install it into the system.

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3.3 Installing the driver into a new system

(*Note: A new system is a system that has no operating system
installed yet, and the SAT2-MV8 driver installation is a part of the OS
installation.)

For the Windows Operating System

a. Install the controller and make sure that the BIOS screen displays as

shown on the previous page.
b. Insert the Windows Setup CD and boot from it.
c. When prompted at the bottom of the screen to install a third party driver,

press the <F6> key. (*Note: You have only 5 seconds to press <F6>. If

you miss it, you will need to restart the system and repeat this step

again.)
d. Insert the driver disk into the system, and wait until you are prompted to

install a driver. Press <S> to specify that the driver is included in an

additional device--the floppy disk, and press <Enter>.
e. When the Marvell's driver disk--"Marvell Serial ATA PCI-X Adapter" is

located, press <Enter>.
f. Press <Enter> again to continue with the Windows OS installation.

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Installing the SAT2-MV8 Driver

For the Red Hat Linux Operating System

a. Insert the Linux Driver into your floppy disk drive and press <Enter>. A

Linux bootup screen will display as shown below:

b. At the boot prompt, type: linux dd as shown in the screen below.

c. After you've typed: linux dd at the prompt, press <Enter>. The system

starts initializing the driver. Then, follow the instructions when prompted
to complete the installation process.

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For the SuSE Linux Operating System

(*Note: The screen shot shown below was taken from a system based on

the SuSE Linux 9.2 Installation. Other SuSE systems may display screens

that are different from the ones included in the manual. However, the

installation procedures listed below apply to all SuSE Linux systems.)
a. Extract the image driver from \DiskImag\Linux\x86_32 into a blank, for-

matted disk.
b. Boot up the system from SuSE Linux Installation CD ROM.
c. When the screen as shown below displays, highlight "Installation", press

<F6> ( to add the Installation Driver), and hit <Enter>.

d. Follow the instructions given at the prompt to complete the installation

process.

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Troubleshooting

4. Troubleshooting

1. Problem: The SAT2-MV8's BIOS does not show up in DOS.

Recommended Solutions:

• Make sure that the system has enough expansion ROM to initialize the
card. Remove other add-in cards if possible.

• Make sure that the card is properly and fully seated in the PCI slot.

• Check if the motherboard's BIOS is updated. (You can download a up­dated BIOS from our web site at: www.supermicro.com.)

2. Problem: I cannot see the card in the operating system.

Recommended Solutions:

• Make sure that the card is shown in the BIOS. If the card is shown in the
BIOS, a screen shown below will display. If it is not shown in the BIOS,
please find out the root cause of the problem by following the steps
listed above.

• Make sure that the driver for the card is installed in the system.

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3. Problem: I cannot see the hard drives that are connected to
the controller.

Recommended Solutions:

• Make sure that there is power supply to the hard drives.

• Check the SATA cable to make sure that there are no loose connections
between the card and the hard drives.

• If the hard drives are connected through a SATA back panel, make sure
that there is power supply to the back panel, and there are no loose
connections between the back panel and the controller. Also make sure
that the hard drives are properly seated in the drive bay.

• If possible, swap the drives around to determine if the drive connections
or the controller is bad.

4. I cannot create software RAID in the operating system.

Recommended Solutions:

• Make sure that the operating system supports software RAID. If not sure,
please check with the software company that produces the OS.

• Make sure that more than one drives are seen by the OS.

Contacting Supermicro's Technical Support:

If you still have problems after trying out all the recommended solutions,

please contact our Tech. Support @ [phone] or visit our web site
@ www.supermicro.com/support/.

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5. Contacting Supermicro

Headquarters

Address: SuperMicro Computer, Inc.

980 Rock Ave.

San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)
Web Site: www.supermicro.com

Europe

Address: SuperMicro Computer B.V.

Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML

's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)

[e-mail] (Customer Support)

Asia-Pacific

Address: SuperMicro, Taiwan

4F, No. 232-1 Liancheng Road

Chung-Ho 235, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web Site: www.supermicro.com.tw
Technical Support:
Email: [e-mail]
Tel: [phone], ext.132 or 139

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6. Product Compliance Information

The SAT2-MV8 is compliant with the following safety standards/
requirements:

* USA: FCC 47 CFR, Part 15, subpart B

* European Union: EN 55022

EN 55024

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