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3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA5, SATA6)
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 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD conguration through the onboard
NVIDIA GeForce 8200 chipset.
M3N78 SATA Connectors
R
M3N78
GND RSATA_TXP5 RSAT
A_TXN5
GND RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXN5 GND
SATA6
GND RSATA_TXP4 RSAT
A_TXN4
GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND
SATA5
GND RSATA_TXP2 RSAT
A_TXN2
GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND
SATA2
GND RSATA_TXP3 RSAT
A_TXN3
GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSAT
A_TXN1
GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND
SATA1
Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.
• For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, RAID 1, and
RAID 0+1, RAID 5, 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
page 2-20 for details.
• If you change the
SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]
or [AHCI Mode], set the Onboard PCI IDE Controller to [Disabled] to
ensure that SATA5 and SATA6 (the black ports) work normally.
• If you want to do the task as GHOST, we suggest you connect the original
disk to the SATA5 or SATA6.