Asus P5W - Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection

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5. JMicron
®
JMB363 Serial ATA connector (7-pin SATA_RAID1 [black])
This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable for a Serial ATA hard disk drive
that you can combine with an external Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s device to congure
a RAID 0, and RAID 1 set through the onboard Jmicron
®
JMB363 SATA RAID
controller. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID
congurations.
P5W
®
P5W SATA RAID connector
SATA_RAID1
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
• To build RAID 1, we recommend that you install the hard disk drives on
the ASUS EZ-Backup connectors (EZ_RAID1 and EZ_RAID2) to enjoy the
instant setup; otherwise, you may also install on the ICH7R connectors.
• You may install an extra hard disk drive on.the JMicron Serial ATA
connector after using up the Intel
®
ICH7R and ASUS EZ-Backup
connectors
The JMicron
®
JMB363 Controller item in the BIOS is set to [Basic] by default,
allowing you to enable the hot-plug function for the external device. Set to [Raid]
to use the connector to build a RAID set. See section “4.4.6 Onboard Device
Conguration” for details.
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1 Red Master Boot disk
SATA 3/SATA4 Black Slave Data disk
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection