Asus M2N68 AM - Motherboard - Micro ATX - Page 32

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specication. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
RAID 10, and JBOD conguration through the onboard controller.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the
SATA
Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See page 2-9 for details.
For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD,
refer to the RAID manual in the Support DVD.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1/2 Red Master Boot disk
SATA3/4 Red Slave Data disk
SATA2
GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND
SATA4
GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GND RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND
SATA1
GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GND RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND
M2N68-AM
M2N68-AM SATA connectors
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