Asus M2N68-AM PLUS ION SI - Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection

ASUS M2N68-AM 1-27
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.
• For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and
RAID 10, and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support DVD.
• 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 the
page 2-16 for details.
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