4.
Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1~6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard
disk drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 configurations through the
onboard SB710 chipset.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the type of
the SATA connectors in the BIOS to
[RAID]
. See section
2.3.4 SATA Configuration
for
details.
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
floppy disk drive when installing Windows
®
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows
®
XP limitation, Windows
®
XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk
drive.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
SATA4
SATA1
GN
D
RSATA_RXN4
RSATA_RXP4
GN
D
RSATA_TXN4
RSATA_TXP4
GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GN
D
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GN
D
SATA5
SATA2
GN
D
RSATA_RXN5
RSATA_RXP5
GN
D
RSATA_TXN5
RSATA_TXP5
GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GN
D
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GN
D
SATA6
SATA3
GN
D
RSATA_RXN6
RSATA_RXP6
GN
D
RSATA_TXN6
RSATA_TXP6
GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GN
D
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GN
D
M4A77T/USB3
M4A77T/USB3 SATA connectors
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