Asus TW100-E5 iQuadro - Manual (Page 48)

Chapter 3: Motherboard information 3-8
1. NVIDIA ® Quadro FX470 Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-4 [red];
7-pin SATA5-6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives.
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
3.3.2 Internal connectors
• SATA1-4 connectors are set to [IDE] by default. If you intend to create a
SATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode select item in
the BIOS to [RAID Mode].
• SATA 5-6 connectors support RAID mode and AHCI mode only. To use
these connectors, set the SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID
mode] or [AHCI Mode].
• SATA devices connected to SATA 5-6 connectors can be used only as data
storage devices. Do not connect a boot device to the SATA 5-6 connectors.
• Due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID or AHCI
mode, all SATA ports run at RAID or AHCI mode together.
• If you intend to use SATA hard disk drives in RAID or AHCI mode, ensure to
create a RAID / AHCI driver disk using the motherboard support DVD, and
then load the RAID / AHCI driver during OS installation.
• You must install the Windows XP ® Service Pack 1 before using SATA
hard disk drives. The SATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows XP ® or later version.