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3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3.0
Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specication.
The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate
while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate, 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 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD conguration through the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield™ controller.
Install the Windows
®
2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
®
XP Service Pack1
before using Serial ATA.
• For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5,and
JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
• By default, RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled]. If
you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable
the nVidia RAID Function item in the IDE Conguration sub-menu in
the BIOS. See section “2.3.4 IDE Conguration” for details.
M2N68
M2N68 SATA Connectors
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA4