Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H Manual - Page 27

6) IDE (IDE Connector) The IDE connector supports up to two IDE devices such as hard drives and optical drives. Before attaching the IDE cable, locate the foolproof groove on the connector. If you wish to connect two IDE devices, remember to set the jumpers and the cabling according to the role of the IDE devices (for example, master or slave). (For information about configuring master/slave settings for the IDE devices, read the instructions from the device manufacturers.) 40 39 2 1 7) SATA2_0/1/2/3/4 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors, Controlled by NVIDIA® GeForce 9400) The SATA connectors conform to SATA 3Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 1.5Gb/s standard. Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device. The NVIDIA® GeForce 9400 controller supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD. Refer to Chapter 5, "Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)," for instructions on configuring a RAID array. SATA2_1 7 1 SATA2_0 SATA2_3 1 7 SATA2_2 7 SATA2_4 1 Pin No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Definition GND TXP TXN GND RXN RXP GND Please connect the L-shaped end of the SATA 3Gb/s cable to your SATA hard drive. • Due to a chipset limitation, the SATA2_3 and SATA2_4 connectors only support AHCI/RAID mode. • A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least two hard drives. If more than two hard drives are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be an even number. • A RAID 5 configuration requires at least three hard drives. (The total number of hard drives does not have to be an even number.) • A RAID 0+1 configuration requires four hard drives. - 27 - Hardware Installation