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ASUS SABERTOOTH X79 2-19
Chapter 2
3. Marvell
®
Serial ATA 6Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6Gb/s
signal cables.
• The SATA6G_E1/E2 (gray) connectors do not support ATAPI devices.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD and one SSD
to Marvell
®
SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors are recommended for data drives.
• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the
Marvell Storage Controller
item in the BIOS
to [Enabled]. Refer to section
3.5.5 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 32/64-bit
Windows XP OS, load rst the
Marvell shared library driver
, and then load
Marvell
91xx SATA Controller Driver
. For Windows Vista / Windows7 OS, load only the
Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver
.