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Chapter 2
3. Marvell
®
Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2 [navy blue])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0
Gb/s signal cables.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• When using NCQ, set the
Marvell Storage Controller
item in the BIOS to [Enabled].
Refer to section
3.5.6 Onboard Devices Conguration
for details.
• 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
.
• Connect one HDD and one SSD to Marvell
®
SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors for a high
performance of ASUS SSD Caching.
• The SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors are recommended for regular use.