Asus P5M2 User Manual - Page 52

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4) These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID® utility embedded in the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge. These connectors are set IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section "4.3.4 IDE Configuration" for details. ® P5M2 Series P5M2 Series SATA Connectors SA TA 4 GND RS ATA _TXP 4 RS ATA _TXN 4 GND RS ATA _RXP 4 RS ATA _RXN4 GND SA TA 3 GND RS ATA _TXP 3 RS ATA _TXN 3 GND RS ATA _RXP 3 RS ATA _RXN3 GND SA TA 2 GND RS ATA _TXP 2 RS ATA _TXN 2 GND RS ATA _RXP 2 RS ATA _RXN2 GND SA TA 1 GND RS ATA _TXP 1 RS ATA _TXN 1 GND RS ATA _RXP 1 RS ATA _RXN1 GND Important notes on Serial ATA • Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set. • When using the connectors in IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections. Serial ATA hard disk drive connection Connector SATA1/SATA2 SATA3/SATA4 Setting Master Slave Use Boot disk Data disk 2-30 Chapter 2: Hardware information