Asus P5W User Manual - Page 59
Intel, ICH7R Serial ATA connectors 7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black]
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4. Intel® ICH7R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black], ) These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 configuration with the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel® ICH7R RAID controller. You may create a RAID 10 set through a cross-RAID configuration with the onboard Intel® ICH7R RAID controller and ASUS EZ-Backup. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations. • These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA As item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section "4.3.6 IDE Configuration" for details. • For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. • For RAID 10 (cross-RAID configuration), use three hard disk drives on these connectors, and one hard disk drive on EZ_RAID1. See section "5.4.5 Cross-RAID configuration" for details. • Use two Serial ATA hard disk drives for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set. SATA1 SATA3 ® SATA4 P5W SATA connectors Important notes on Serial ATA • You must install Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003 or later version. • When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 connector. P5W GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GND RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GND RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND ASUS P5W 2-33