Chapter 2 Installation Instructions
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925XE7AA Series User Manual
Intel
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ICH6R controlled S-ATA Connectors: SATA_1/2/3/4
The Serial ATA connector is used to connect the Serial ATA device to the
motherboard. These connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for primary
internal storage devices. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can
create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration with Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology
through the onboard Intel
®
ICH6R RAID controller. Refer to RAID manual on how
to set up SATA RAID configurations for details.
SATA _1/SATA _2/
SATA _3/SATA _4
Silicon Image 3114 controlled S-ATA Connectors: SATA_5/6/7/8
These four Serial ATA connectors are controlled by Silicon Image 3114 controller,
supporting up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives that you can configure a disk
array through onboard SATA RAID controller. Refer to RAID manual on how to set
up SATA RAID configurations for details.
Note: If you do not want to use RAID mode and just connect one hard disk
drive to one of these connectors as boot/data drive, in order to use this hard
disk drive, you need create Non-RAID with JBOD mode. Refer to RAID manual
on how to set up SATA Non-RAID configurations with JBOD mode for details.
SATA _5/SATA _6/
SATA _7/SATA _8
GND
GND
GND
T X +
T X -
RX+
RX-
GND
GND
GND
T X +
T X -
RX+
RX-
1
1