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Chapter 2 Connecting Peripherals
2.15 Serial ATA Interface (SATA1~SATA6)
The PCE-5126 features high performance serial ATA interface (2* 600MB/s and 4*
300MB/s) which eases cabling to hard drivers or CD/DVD drivers with long cables.
These six on-board SATA ports can be configured as RAID 0, 1, 10, or 5. Please see
the detailed BIOS setting instructions for this in Chapter 3.
2.16 LPC Extension Interface (LPC1)
LPC1 is a 4-pin female pinheader for adopting Advantech proprietary COM port
extension module PCA-COM485-00A1E which features four extra COM ports (serial
ports) supporting RS-422/485 with auto flow control function.
Note! We recommend to plug CD/DVD drives on SATA3~6.
When you install Linux OS, we recommend you to set AHCI mode in
BIOS setting. It may recognize no hard drives when you use IDE mode
during Linux OS installation.