Asus M5A78L/USB3 - Manual (Page 35)

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1~6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 set through the onboard chipset.
• Install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a SATA RAID set, set the type of the SATA connectors to [RAID]
in the BIOS. See 2.3.4 SATA Configuration for details.
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
floppy disk drive when installing Windows ® XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows ® XP limitation, Windows ® XP may not recognize some USB floppy disk
drives.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
SATA3G_4
GND
RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN
4
GND
RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN
4
GND
SATA3G_3
GND
RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN
3
GND
RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN
3
GND
SATA3G_6
GND
RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN
6
GND
RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_RXN
6
GND
SATA3G_5
GND
RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXN
5
GND
RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXN
5
GND
SATA3G_1
GND RSATA_RXN
1
RSATA_RXP1 GND RSATA_TXN
1
RSATA_TXP1 GND
SATA3G_2
GND RSATA_RXN
2
RSATA_RXP2 GND RSATA_TXN
2
RSATA_TXP2 GND
M5A78L Series
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