Asus P5AD2-E Premium User Guide - Page 48

3 . IDE RAID connectors (40-1 pin PRI_RAID1 [red], SEC_RAID1 [red]) These connectors are for Ultra ATA 133/100/66 signal cables. The IDE RAID connectors support up to four IDE hard disk drives that you can configure as a disk array through the onboard IDE RAID controller. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID configurations. These connectors are set to I D E M o d e by default. In I D E M o d e, you can connect IDE devices to these connectors such as boot/data hard disk drives or optical drives. If you intend to create an IDE RAID set using these connectors, set the I T E 8 2 1 2 F C o n t r o l l e r item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See section "4.4.6 Onboard Devices Configuration" for details. P5AD2-E PREMIUM SEC_RAID1 NOTE: Orient the red markings ® (usually zigzag) on the IDE cable to PIN 1. PRI_RAID1 PIN 1 P5AD2-E PREMIUM RAID connectors • Before creating a RAID set using Ultra ATA hard disks, make sure that you have connected the Ultra ATA signal cable and installed Ultra ATA 133/100/66 hard disk drives. • The system automatically assigns the boot sequence of ATAPI devices connected to the IDE RAID connectors. • The ITE® 8212F controller supports a maximum of two Ultra ATA hard disk drives in RAID 1 configuration. • Before creating a RAID 1 set, make sure that you set the hard disk drives as either Master or Slave device. Refer to the hard disk drive documentation for details. 2-26 Chapter 2: Hardware information