Asus P9D-C/4L - Manual (Page 51)

ASUS P9D-C Series 2-31
2. PSAS connectors (7-pin PSAS1, PSAS2, PSAS3, PSAS4, PSAS5, PSAS6, PSAS7,
PSAS8 [Blue])
This motherboard comes with eight (8) PIKE Serial Attached SCSI (PSAS) connectors
that supports both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Each connector
supports one device.
• These connectors function only when you install a PIKE RAID card.
• Connect the SAS hard disk drives to PSAS connectors 1–4 (blue) when installing a
4-port PIKE RAID card.