Asus P5AD2-E Premium User Guide - Page 50

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection Connector Color Setting Use SATA1/SATA2 Red Master Boot disk SATA3/SATA4 Black Slave Data disk 5 . Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1, SATA_RAID2, SATA_RAID3, SATA_RAID4) These connectors are for Serial ATA signal cables. These connectors support up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives that you can configure as a disk array through the onboard SATA RAID controller. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations. These connectors are set to R A I D M o d e by default. If you want to connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors, set the S i l i c o n I m a g e C o n t r o l l e r item in the BIOS to [SATA Mode]. See section "4.4.6 Onboard Devices Configuration" for details. P5AD2-E PREMIUM GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND ® SATA_RAID1 SATA_RAID2 SATA_RAID3 SATA_RAID4 P5AD2-E PREMIUM SATA RAID connectors • Before creating a RAID set using Serial ATA hard disks, make sure that you have connected the Serial ATA signal cable and installed Serial ATA hard disk drives; ; otherwise, you cannot enter the Silicon Image RAID utility and SATA BIOS setup during POST. • You can only create a RAID 5 set using the SATALink™ SATA RAID Management software. See Chapter 5 for details. The RAID 5 feature is not Windows® Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL)-certified. 2-28 Chapter 2: Hardware information