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Hardware Setup
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by nForce3 250:
SATA1~SATA2 (Optional)
The chipset of this mainboard is nForce3 250 which supports two serial ATA
connectors SATA1 and SATA2.
SATA1 and SATA2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each sup-
ports 1
st
generation serial ATA data rates of 150 MB/s. Both connectors are fully
compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect
to 1 hard disk device. Please refer to the Chapter 5: nVIDIA RAID Introduction for
detail software installation procedure.
PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL
1 GND 2 TXP
3 TXN 4 GND
5 RXN 6 RXP
7 GND
SATA1~ SATA2 Pin Definition
MSI Reminds You...
Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90-degree angle, which will
cause the loss of data during the transmission.
Connect to serial ATA ports
Take out the dust cover and
connect to the hard disk
devices
Serial ATA cable
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SATA3
SATA4
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