Asus M2N8-VMX - Serial Ata Connectors

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3. Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
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 conguration through the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield™ controller.
Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows
®
2000 Service Pack 4 or Windows
®
XP Service Pack1
before using Serial ATA.
For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0 or 1, refer to the
RAID manual in the support CD.
M2N8-VMX SATA Connectors
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA2