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2-0 Chapter 2: Hardware information
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration using the LSI
MegaRAID
®
utility embedded in the Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting Use
SATA1/SATA2 Master Boot disk
SATA3/SATA4 Slave Data disk
These connectors are set IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can connect
Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create
a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA as item
in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section “4.3.4 IDE Configuration” for details.
Important notes on Serial ATA
• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• When using the connectors in
IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard
disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
P5M2 Series
®
P5M2 Series SATA Connectors
SA TA 4
GND
RS ATA _TXP 4
RS ATA _TXN 4
GND
RS ATA _RXP 4
RS ATA _RXN4
GND
SA TA 3
GND
RS ATA _TXP 3
RS ATA _TXN 3
GND
RS ATA _RXP 3
RS ATA _RXN3
GND
SA TA 2
GND
RS ATA _TXP 2
RS ATA _TXN 2
GND
RS ATA _RXP 2
RS ATA _RXN2
GND
SA TA 1
GND
RS ATA _TXP 1
RS ATA _TXN 1
GND
RS ATA _RXP 1
RS ATA _RXN1
GND