Asus A8N32-SLI - Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce SPP 100 ATX AMD Motherboard Deluxe - Page 32

1-22 Chapter 1: Hardware information
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1, SATA2 Black Master Boot Disk
SATA3, SATA4 Black Slave Data Disk
Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors
4 . Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
Supported by the NVIDIA
®
nForce™4 SLI chipset, these connectors are
for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that
allow up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0,
RAID 1, or RAID 1+0 configuration that span across the Parallel ATA
drives.
The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard
disks installed.
These connectors are set to SATA by default. In SATA mode, you can
connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors. If
you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors,
enable the RAID function of each port from the NVRAID
Configuration sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard
Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-26 for details.
A8N-SLI
®
A8N-SLI SATA connectors
SATA
1
SATA2
GND RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
GND RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
GND RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA
3
SATA4