Primary
Master (1st)
Primary
Slave (2nd)
Secondary
Slave (4th)
Secondary
Master (3rd)
Pin 1
Pin 1
Motherboard SATA 1 & 2 SATA 3 & 4
AX4C-G RAID
0
AX4C Pro
RAID 0
AX4C Max
RAID 0
RAID 0, 1, 0+1
(With ATA133)
Serial ATA Ports
SATA port 1 (ICH5, ICH5R)
SATA port 2 (ICH5, ICH5R)
SATA port 3 (PDC20378)
SATA port 4 (PDC20378)
8. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cables
Connect 34-pin floppy cable and 40-pin, 80-wire IDE cable to floppy connector FDC and
IDE connector. Be careful of the pin1 orientation. Wrong orientation may cause system
damage.
Pin 1
ATA 33/66/100
IDE Connector
IDE 1 (Primary)
IDE 2 (Secondary)
This motherboard provides eight USB2.0 connectors. Compared to traditional USB 1.0/1.1
with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.0 has a fancy speed up to 480Mbps, which is 40 times
faster than the traditional one.
USB2 Connector
Pin 1
9. Support Eight USB2.0 Connectors
6. Serial ATA Supported (With RAID support on AX4C
Pro, AX4C Max only)
This motherboard comes with integrated Serial ATA controller in chip, aiming to provide you
an even faster transfer rate of 150 Mbytes/second. Integrated in North Bridge, this
motherboard also comes along with RAID function that supports RAID 0, while AX4C MAX
supports extra RAID 0+1 with Promise PDC20378 by ATA133 IDE connector. Please be
noted that Hot-Plug in is not allowed.
7. Connecting Serial ATA Disk
To connect a Serial ATA disk, you have to have a 7-pin serial ATA cable. Connect two ends
of the serial ATA cable to the serial ATA header on the motherboard and the disk. Like every
other traditional disk, you also have to connect a power cable. Please be noted that it is a
jumper free implement; you don’t need to set jumpers to define a master or slave disk.
When connecting two serial ATA disks, the system will automatically take the one connected
to “Serial ATA 1” header as a master disk.
Serial ATA cable
USB2 Connector
KEY
GND
SBD2+
SBD2
+5V
NC
GND-
SBD3+
SBD3-
+5V
1
FDD Connector
ATA 133
IDE Connector
(AX4C MAX only)
