Asus P6X58D-E - Marvell Serial ATA 6.0 Gb;S Connectors; (7-Pin SATA_6 G_1, 7-Pin SATA_6 G_2 [Gray])

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Chapter 2
2. Marvell
®
Serial ATA 6Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA_6G_1, 7-pin SATA_6G_2 [gray])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA 6Gb/s hard
disk drives.
• These connectors are set to IDE Mode by default. When using hot-plug and NCQ, set
the
Marvell 9128 Controller
item in the BIOS to [AHCI Mode]. Refer to section
3.6.3
Onboard Devices Conguration
for details.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• Press <Ctrl> + <M> during POST to enter the Marvell RAID utility to create or delete a
RAID conguration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID conguration created
using the Marvell SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the
motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit
Windows XP OS, load rst the
Marvell shared library driver
, and then load
Marvell
91xx SATA Controller Driver
. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the
Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver.