Chapter 2 Installation Instructions
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955X7AA Series User Manual
Intel
®
ICH7R controlled S-ATA II Connectors:
SATA_1/2/3/4
These Serial ATA II connectors are used to connect
the Serial ATA device to the motherboard. These con-
nectors 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 con-
figuration with Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology through
the onboard Intel
®
ICH7R RAID controller. Refer to
RAID manual (in Utility CD) on how to set up SATA
RAID configurations for details
(Please refer to the item
22 of motherboard layout on chapter 1).
Silicon Image 3114 controlled S-ATA I
Connectors: SATA_5/6/7/8
These four Serial ATA I 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. Re-
fer to RAID manual on how to set up SATA RAID con-
figurations for details.
Note: If you do not want to use RAID mode and just
connect one hard disk drive to one of these connec-
tors as boot/data drive, in order to use this hard disk
drive, you need create Non-RAID with JBOD mode.
Refer to RAID manual (in Utility CD) on how to set up
SATA Non-RAID configurations with JBOD mode for
details(Please refer to the item 13 of motherboard lay-
out on
chapter 1).
SATA _5/SATA _6/
SATA _7/SATA _8
GND
GND
GND
T X +
TX-
RX+
RX-
1
SATA _1/SATA _2/
SATA _3/SATA _4
GND
GND
GND
RX+
RX-
T X +
TX-
1