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4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red],
SATA5 [black], SATA6 [black])
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 0+1, 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 0+1, and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
• 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 2-18 for details.
• Due to the chipset’s limitation, SATA 5 and SATA 6 do not support IDE
mode, only support AHCI and RAID mode.
M3N78-EM
M3N78-EM SATA Connectors
GND RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXN5 GND RSATA_RXP5 RSAT
A_RXN5
GND
SATA5
GND RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN6 GND RSATA_RXP6 RSAT
A_RXN6
GND
SATA6
GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSAT
A_RXN2
GND
SATA2
GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSAT
A_RXN3
GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSAT
A_RXN1
GND
SATA1
R