Asus A8N5X, User Manual

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A S U S A 8 N 5 X A S U S A 8 N 5 X A S U S A 8 N 5 X A S U S A 8 N 5 X A S U S A 8 N 5 X 1 - 2 3 1 - 2 3 1 - 2 3 1 - 2 3 1 - 2 3
3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s
( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
Supported by the NVIDIA
® nForce™ 4 chipset, these connectors are
for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that
allows up to 1.5Gb/s of data transfer rate.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 1+0, or JBOD configuration that span across the Parallel
ATA drives. Refer to Chapter 3 for details on how to set up RAID
configurations.
These connectors are set to S A T A
S A T A
S A T A S A T A S A T A by default. In SATA mode, you can
connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors. If
you intent to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors,
enable the RAID function of each port from the N V R A I D
N V R A I D N V R A I D N V R A I D N V R A I D
C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard
Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-25 for details.
A8N5X
®
A8N5X SATA connectors
SATA1 SATA2
GND RSA
T
A_TXP4
RSA
T
A_TXN4
GND RSA
T
A_RXN4
RSA
T
A_RXP4
GND GND RSA
T
A_TXP3
RSA
T
A_TXN3
GND RSA
T
A_RXN3
RSA
T
A_RXP3
GND
GND RSA
T
A_TXP2
RSA
T
A_TXN2
GND RSA
T
A_RXN2
RSA
T
A_RXP2
GND GND RSA
T
A_TXP1
RSA
T
A_TXN1
GND RSA
T
A_RXN1
RSA
T
A_RXP1
GND
SATA3 SATA4