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3. ICH9R Serial ATA connectors [blue] (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives.
• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2 connector. Refer to the table below
for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard 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 4.3.6 SATA Configuration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.1 RAID Configurations or the
manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
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SATA connectors
SATA2 SATA1
GND
RS
AT
A_TXP2
RS
AT
A_TXN2
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP2
RS
AT
A_RXN2
GND GND
RS
AT
A_TXP1
RS
AT
A_TXN1
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP1
RS
AT
A_RXN1
GND
SATA3 SATA4
GND
RS
AT
A_TXP3
RS
AT
A_TXN3
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP3
RS
AT
A_RXN3
GND GND
RS
AT
A_TXP4
RS
AT
A_TXN4
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP4
RS
AT
A_RXN4
GND
SATA6 SATA5
GND
RS
AT
A_TXP6
RS
AT
A_TXN6
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP6
RS
AT
A_RXN6
GND GND
RS
AT
A_TXP5
RS
AT
A_TXN5
GND
RS
AT
A_RXP5
RS
AT
A_RXN5
GND
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA 1/2 Blue Master Boot disk
SATA 3/4 Blue Slave Boot/Data disk
SATA 5/6 Blue Master Boot disk
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