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Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red],Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red],
Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red],Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red],
Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red],
SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])
SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])
SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0 or
RAID 1 configuration with the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology
through the onboard Intel
®
ICH6R RAID controller. Refer to Chapter 5
for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations.
These connectors are set to
Standard IDE Standard IDE
Standard IDE Standard IDE
Standard IDE mode by default. In
SS
SS
S
tandard IDE tandard IDE
tandard IDE tandard IDE
tandard IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk
drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set
using these connectors, set the
Configure SATA As Configure SATA As
Configure SATA As Configure SATA As
Configure SATA As item in the BIOS
to [RAID]. See section “4.3.6 IDE Configuration” on page 4-15 for details.
Important notes on Serial ATAImportant notes on Serial ATA
Important notes on Serial ATAImportant notes on Serial ATA
Important notes on Serial ATA
• You must install Windows
®
2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
®
XP
Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial
ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1) is available only if you are using
Windows
®
2000/XP.
• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1
set.
• When using the connectors in
SS
SS
S
tandard IDE tandard IDE
tandard IDE tandard IDE
tandard IDE mode, connect the
primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector.
Refer to the table on the next page for the recommended SATA hard
disk drive connections.
• If your chassis supports only six hard disk drives or less, you can use
the Serial ATA extension module (shown in the illustration above) to
install two additional external SATA hard disk drives.
Serial ATASerial ATA
Serial ATASerial ATA
Serial ATA
extension moduleextension module
extension moduleextension module
extension module
P5AD2-E
PREMIUM
®
P5AD2-E PREMIUM SATA connectors
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND