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Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by nForce3, 250Gb: SATA1~SATA4 - specification

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Hardware Setup Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by nForce3 250Gb: SATA1~SATA4 The chipset of this mainboard is nForce3 250Gb which supports four serial ATA connectors SATA1~SATA4. SATA1~SATA4 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 the Chapter 5: nVIDIA RAID Introduction for detail software installation procedure. SATA4 SATA3 1 7 SATA2 SATA1 1 7 SATA1~ SATA4 Pin Definition PIN SIGNAL 1 GND 3 TXN 5 RXN 7 GND PIN SIGNAL 2 TXP 4 GND 6 RXP Serial ATA cable Connect to serial ATA ports Take out the dust cover and connect to the hard disk devices MSI Reminds You... Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90-degree angle, which will cause the loss of data during the transmission. 2-17

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Hardware Setup
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by nForce3
250Gb: SATA1~SATA4
The chipset of this mainboard is nForce3 250Gb which supports four serial
ATA connectors SATA1~SATA4.
SATA1~SATA4 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports
1
st
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 the
Chapter 5: nVIDIA RAID Introduction
for detail soft-
ware installation procedure.
PIN
SIGNAL
PIN
SIGNAL
1
GND
2
TXP
3
TXN
4
GND
5
RXN
6
RXP
7
GND
SATA1~
SATA4 Pin Definition
MSI Reminds You...
Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90-degree angle, which will
cause the loss of data during the transmission.
Connect to serial ATA ports
Take out the dust cover and
connect to the hard disk
devices
Serial ATA cable
7
1
SATA3
SATA4
SATA2
SATA1
1
7