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Silicon Image, Serial ATA RAID connector 7-pin SATA_RAID2

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Connect the right-angle side of SATA signal cable to SATA device. Or you may connect the right-angle side of SATA cable to the onboard SATA port to avoid mechanical conflict with huge graphics cards. right angle side 4. Silicon Image® Serial ATA RAID connector (7-pin SATA_RAID2) This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable. This connector supports a Serial ATA hard disk drive that you can configure for RAID through the onboard Serial ATA RAID controller. The Silicon 3132 Controller item in the BIOS is set to [SATA Mode] by default, allowing you to enable the hot-plug function for the external device. Set to [RAID Mode] to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section 4.4.6 Onboard Device Configuration for details. SSATAA_TRAA_IDR2 AID2 GND RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXP5 GND RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GND GND RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXP5 GND RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GND M2N32-SLI PREMIUM M2N32-SLI PREMIUM SATA M2N32-SLI PREMIUM RAID connector Before creating a RAID set using Serial ATA hard disks, make sure that you M2N32-SLI PREMIUM have connected the Serial ATA signal cables and installed Serial ATA hard disk drives; otherwise, you cannot enter the Silicon Image® RAID utility and SATA SATA RAID cBoIOnSnseetucp tdourirng POST. 2-28 Chapter 2: Hardware information

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Chapter 2: Hardware information
4.
Silicon Image
®
Serial ATA RAID connector (7-pin SATA_RAID2)
This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable. This connector supports
a Serial ATA hard disk drive that you can configure for RAID through the
onboard Serial ATA RAID controller.
The Silicon 3132 Controller item in the BIOS is set to [SATA Mode] by default,
allowing you to enable the hot-plug function for the external device. Set to [RAID
Mode] to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section
4.4.6 Onboard
Device Configuration
for details.
Before creating a RAID set using Serial ATA hard disks, make sure that you
have connected the Serial ATA signal cables and installed Serial ATA hard disk
drives; otherwise, you cannot enter the Silicon Image
®
RAID utility and SATA
BIOS setup during POST.
M2N32-SLI PREMIUM
M2N32-SLI PREMIUM
SATA RAID connector
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
right angle side
SATA_RAID2
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXP5
GND
RSATA_TXN5
RSATA_TXP5
GND