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Chapter 4: Motherboard information
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3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
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 and
RAID 1 configuration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager, or RAID 0, and
RAID 1 configuration using the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID utility in the
Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
These connectors are set to 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 5.3.4 for details.
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.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector
Setting
Use
SATA1/SATA2
Master
Boot disk
SATA3/SATA4
Slave
Data disk
P5M2-R
®
P5M2-R SATA connectors
SATA1
(port0)
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P1
RS
AT
A_
TX
N1
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
N1
RS
AT
A_
RX
P1
G
ND
SATA2
(port1)
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P2
RS
AT
A_
TX
N2
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
N2
RS
AT
A_
RX
P2
G
ND
SATA3
(port2)
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P3
RS
AT
A_
TX
N3
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
N3
RS
AT
A_
RX
P3
G
ND
SATA4
(port3)
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P4
RS
AT
A_
TX
N4
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
N4
RS
AT
A_
RX
P4
G
ND