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Chapter 2: Hardware information
6. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables
for Serial ATA hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to
150MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with
133MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives and Windows
®
XP operating
system, you can create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration using the
Adaptec HostRAID technology embedded in the Intel
®
6300ESB.
Important notes on Serial ATA
•
In a legacy operating system (DOS) environment, using the Serial
ATA connectors will disable the Southbridge support to one of the
IDE channels (either primary or secondary channel).
•
The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 and RAID 1) is only available
under Windows
®
XP.
PSCH-SR
®
PSCH-SR SATA Connectors
SATA2
SATA1
GND
RSA
T
A_TXP1
RSA
T
A_TXN1
GND
RSA
T
A_RXN1
RSA
T
A_RXP1
GND
GND
RSA
T
A_TXP2
RSA
T
A_TXN2
GND
RSA
T
A_RXN2
RSA
T
A_RXP2
GND
