Asus ESC2000 G2 - Manual (Page 66)

Chapter 3: Motherboard information 3-18
3.5.4 Internal connectors
1. Marvell ® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0
Gb/s signal cables.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD and one SSD
to Marvell ® SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors.
• For SSD Caching setup, you can use more than one SSD and only one HDD.
• You cannot use ASUS SSD Caching and Marvell ® RAID at the same time.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors are recommended for data
drivers.
• You must install Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• Press <Ctrl> + <M> during POST to enter the Marvell ® RAID utility to create or delete
a RAID configuration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration created
using the Marvell ® SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the
motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit
Windows XP OS, load first the Marvell ® shared library driver, and then load Marvell
® 92xx SATA Controller Driver. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the
Marvell ® 92xx SATA Controller Driver.