Serial ata hard disk drive connection – Asus P5E-V HDMI User Manual

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Connect the right-angle side

of SATA signal cable to SATA

device. Or you may connect the

right-angle side of SATA cable to

the onboard SATA port to avoid

mechanical conflict with huge

graphics cards.

right angle side

• You must install the Windows

®

XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA

hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 and RAID 1) is

available only if you are using Windows

®

XP or later version.

• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary

(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table

below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

SATA 1/2/5/6

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA 3/4

Black

Slave

Data disk

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