MegaRAC MG9070

SAS/SATA Enclosure Management Controller

AMIs MG9070 enclosure management controller can be utilized with both

SATA and SAS backplanes for applications from entry-level to mission-critical, while
providing a cost effective solution that does not require an expander. The chip imple-
ments Enclosure Management Protocol for supporting Promise SATA HBA as well
as SGPIO per SFF 8485 specification, managing LEDs for up to four drives.
AMI, who gained high reputation in the storage industry with RAIDs, works
with all the major HBA vendors to ensure compatibility.
Data sheet
4 30 2008

Highlights
> Supports up to 4 SAS/SATA drives
> Drive Activity, Rebuild & Fail LEDs
> Supports Ready LED Signal from
Drive
> Manages drive presence
> Global activity & Global Fail indica-
tion
> SGPIO protocol support to interface
to SAS/SATA HBA
> Enclosure Management Protocol
support for Promise HBA
> Number of supported drives can
easily be increased by a factor of
4 by adding similar chips in case of
SGPIO interface
> Support for maximum of 8 drives in
case of Promise protocol
> Two SMBus ports and one SGPIO
port
MegaRAC MG9070 chip manages per-gigabyte SATA drives, giving system
hot-swap SAS/SATA-II backplanes with builders the flexibility to integrate either
enclosure management, ideal for cost-sen- SAS or SATA devices while slashing the
sitive and performance-oriented system costs associated with supporting two
designs. The device is compatible with separate interfaces. As the next genera-
adapters supporting Enclosure Manage- tion of SCSI, SAS bridges the parallel
ment Protocol for Promise SATA HBA technology gap in performance, scal-
or SAS adapters with SGPIO interface. ability and affordability.
Each MG9070 has one SGPIO port that The SAS interface is designed to be
can communicate enclosure management compatible with the Serial ATA (SATA)
information to the SAS host bus adapter, interface at physical layer level. This al-
support LED management and detect lows SAS or SATA drives to be plugged
drive presence for up to four drives. into a SAS backplane, which reduces de-
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Seri- sign and inventory costs for backplane
al ATA are the latest storage interconnect manufacturers.
standards, introducing higher speeds, A backplane required to support only
more robust data integrity, smaller de- four drives can have just one MG9070.
signs and wider standardization. The SAS By adding more devices, the backplane
interface is compatible with lower-cost- can manage 8, 16 drives or more.
SDA_HBA
SCL_HBA
SDATAOUT
SDATAIN

SCLOCK

SDA
SCL
SLOAD

Backplane_ID SGPIO Interface I2C to VCC

I2C
RESET# (SAS) Promise HBA GND
MATED1 Global ACT GLOBAL_FAIL
MATED2 Drive & FAIL
MATED3 Presence LOGIC GLOBAL_ACT
CPU Memory
MATED4 MB_ACT_IN#
MB ACT
LOGIC MB ACT
XTAL1 Drive Drive
Activity Fail Ready LED From
XTAL2 LEDs LEDs Drives
Ready
FAIL1

Ready

Ready
GREEN1
GREEN2
GREEN3
GREEN4

FAIL2

FAIL4

LED4
FAIL3

Ready

LED2

LED3
LED1

2008 American Megatrends Inc. - Specifications subject to change without notice

 MegaRAC MG9070
SAS/SATA Enclosure Management Controller
Features
Versatile: MG 9070 can be used in a variety of designs
Supported Enclosure Management Protocol

SGPIO HBA /SGPIO Interface

Sideband Signals Sideband Signals
Each device has one SGPIO connector 1 connector 2
One SGPIO port communicates enclosure man- port that can communicate S S S S S S S S
agement information, LED management and enclosure management in- D D C L D D C L SAS-HBA
O I L O O I L O
drive presence for up to 4 drives formation to HBAs with K A K A
SGPIO interface, support- D D
ing LED management and
Promise Protocol drive presence for up to
4 drives. By adding more SDO SDI CLK LOAD SDO SDI CLK LOAD
Supports Promise Protocol for SATA HBA MG9070 devices, the back- MG9070 MG9070
over I2C plane can be realized for 8, 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3
12, 16 drives or more.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Drive Support
Each chip supports 4 drives
Support for up to 8 drives by cascading two I2C Signals
MG9070
Promise SATA HBA S S
C D Promise
MG9070 is designed to work L I SATA-HBA

Managed Elements with any Promise SATA

HBA over I2C. By adding
Drive Presence more MG9070 devices, the
Drive Activity backplane can be realized for
8, 12, 16 drives or more.
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Drive Fail SCL_HBA SDA_HBA SCL_HBA SDA_HBA

Drive Locate 29
Backplane_ID
MG9070 29 Backplane_ID MG9070
Global Activity 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3

Global Fail
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Ready LED Support

Absolute Maximum Ratings ESB-2

Operating Temperatures -55oC to +125oC ESB2
S S S S
Storage Temperature -65oC to +150oC The block diagram shows the use of MG9070 D D C L MOTHERBOARD
Voltage on any pin except RESET# with respect with an ESB2 southbridge. By adding more O O L O
MG9070 devices, the backplane can be real- 0 1 K A
to ground -1.0V to VCC+0.5V ized for 8, 12, 16 drives or more. D
Voltage on RESET# with respect to ground -1.0
to +13.0V
Maximum operating Voltage 6.00V
DC Current per I/O Pin 40.0mA SDO SDI CLK LOAD SDO SDI CLK LOAD

DC Current VCC and Ground Pin 200.0mA MG9070 MG9070

0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3

0 1 2 3 4 5

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