MSI K8T NEO2-FIR User Guide - Page 31

MS-6702E ATX Mainboard Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors con- trolled by VT8237: SATA1/SATA2 The Southbridge of this mainboard is VT8237 which supports two serial connectors SATA1 and SATA2. SATA1 & SATA2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports 1st generation serial ATA data rates of 150 MB/s. Both connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect to one hard disk device. Please refer to VIA Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID manual for detailed software installation procedure. 71 SATA2 SATA1 Parallel ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Promise 20579: IDE3/SER1/SER2 (Optional) The brand new Promise 20579 chipset supports one IDE connector IDE3 and two serial connectors SER1& SER2. IDE3 is a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 controller that provides PIO mode and DMA mode 0~5, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 function. You can connect up to 2 hard disk drives---one IDE master and one IDE slave. SER1 & SER2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports 1st generation serial ATA data rates of 150 MB/s. Both connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect to 1 hard disk device. Please refer to Chapter 5 Promise FastTrak579 Parallel ATA/Serial ATA Raid section for detail software installation procedure. SER1 & SER2 Pin Definition IDE3 1 7 SER2 SER1 Optional Serial ATA cable Pin Signal 1 GND 3 TXN 5 RXN 7 GND Pin Signal 2 TXP 4 GND 6 RXP Connect to SER1 / SER2 or SATA1 / SATA2 Take out the dust cover and connect to the hard disk devices 2-18