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Serial ATA R C.5 Serial ATA Power Cable Serial ATA power cables are usually 4 or 5-pin cables with 15-pin connectors. SATA power cables currently use an IDE/ATAPI to SATA power adaptor. One end of the SATA power cable is a typical 4-pin IDE/ATAPI power connector (which gets connected to an unused power cable from the power supply) and the other end (15-pin connector) gets connected to the SATA hard drive. The following illustration shows an example of a SATA power cable: C.6 C.7 C.8 Are a Serial ATA Data and Power Cable Needed for Serial ATA? In order to take advantage of Serial ATA (SATA), SATA data and power cables are required. These SATA cables have a new design configuration; you cannot use older 40-pin, 80-conductor IDE or regular IDE power cables with SATA hard drives as they physically do not fit the SATA devices. Mixing/Matching Serial ATA Hard Drives with IDE Hard Drives If your motherboard has a supported Intel chipset and provides both IDE and Serial ATA connections, you can use both Serial ATA and IDE hard drives in the system. Note that Serial ATA hard drives use different data and power cables than IDE devices. In order to use both IDE and Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID configuration, please refer to Section 22.2 titled 'Create Volume Manually' for additional information. Using IDE to Serial ATA Adaptors Using IDE to Serial ATA adaptors (also referred to as "Serial ATA converter" or "device side dongle") to connect IDE hard drives to Serial ATA ports is not recommended. Intel recommends that you only connect Serial ATA hard drives to Serial ATA ports. IDE to Serial ATA Adapters are not recommended for use with Intel RAID Technology as these devices have not been validated for use in Intel platforms. Intel does not provide support for configurations using IDE to Serial ATA Adapters. User's Manual 87

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Serial
ATA
R
C.5
Serial ATA Power Cable
Serial ATA power cables are usually 4 or 5-pin cables with 15-pin connectors. SATA power
cables currently use an IDE/ATAPI to SATA power adaptor. One end of the SATA power cable
is a typical 4-pin IDE/ATAPI power connector (which gets connected to an unused power cable
from the power supply) and the other end (15-pin connector) gets connected to the SATA hard
drive. The following illustration shows an example of a SATA power cable:
C.6
Are a Serial ATA Data and Power Cable Needed for
Serial ATA?
In order to take advantage of Serial ATA (SATA), SATA data and power cables are required.
These SATA cables have a new design configuration; you cannot use older 40-pin, 80-conductor
IDE or regular IDE power cables with SATA hard drives as they physically do not fit the SATA
devices.
C.7
Mixing/Matching Serial ATA Hard Drives with IDE
Hard Drives
If your motherboard has a supported Intel chipset and provides both IDE and Serial ATA
connections, you can use both Serial ATA and IDE hard drives in the system. Note that Serial
ATA hard drives use different data and power cables than IDE devices. In order to use both IDE
and Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID configuration, please refer to Section 22.2 titled ‘Create
Volume Manually’ for additional information.
C.8
Using IDE to Serial ATA Adaptors
Using IDE to Serial ATA adaptors (also referred to as “Serial ATA converter” or “device side
dongle”) to connect IDE hard drives to Serial ATA ports is not recommended. Intel recommends
that you only connect Serial ATA hard drives to Serial ATA ports. IDE to Serial ATA Adapters
are not recommended for use with Intel RAID Technology as these devices have not been
validated for use in Intel platforms. Intel does not provide support for configurations using IDE to
Serial ATA Adapters.
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