4.
Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA5, and SATA6)
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 133MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 set through the onboard chipset.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a SATA RAID set, set the type of the SATA connectors to
[RAID]
in the BIOS. See
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 some USB floppy disk
drives.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN
4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN
4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN
3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN
3
GND
SATA6
GND
RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN
6
GND
RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN
6
GND
SATA5
GND
RSATA_TXP5
RSATA_TXN
5
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXN
5
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_RXN
1
RSATA_RXP1
GND
RSATA_TXN
1
RSATA_TXP1
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_RXN
2
RSATA_RXP2
GND
RSATA_TXN
2
RSATA_TXP2
GND
M4A78LT Series
M4A78LT Series SATA connectors
ASUS M4A78LT Series
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