Serial ata hard disk drive connection, Utility embedded in the intel, Ich7r southbridge – Asus TS300-E5 User Manual

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Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Setting

Use

SATA1/SATA2

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/SATA4

Slave

Data disk

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-4)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk

drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,

RAID 10 and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel

®

Matrix Storage Technology

or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID

®

utility embedded in the Intel

®

ICH7R Southbridge.

These connectors are set IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can connect

Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create

a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA as item

in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.4 IDE Configuration for details.

®

P5BP-E/4L

P5BP-E/4L SATA Connectors

SATA1

SATA3

SATA2

SATA4

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

TX

P1

RS

AT

A_

TX

N1

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

RX

P1

RS

AT

A_

RX

N1

GN

D

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

TX

P2

RS

AT

A_

TX

N2

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

RX

P2

RS

AT

A_

RX

N2

GN

D

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

TX

P3

RS

AT

A_

TX

N3

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

RX

P3

RS

AT

A_

RX

N3

GN

D

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

TX

P4

RS

AT

A_

TX

N4

GN

D

RS

AT

A_

RX

P4

RS

AT

A_

RX

N4

GN

D

• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• When using the connectors in IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard

disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the

recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

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