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Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
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• To build RAID 1, we recommend that you install the hard disk drives on the ASUS EZ-Backup connectors (EZ_RAID1 and EZ_RAID2) to enjoy the instant setup; otherwise, you may also install on the ICH7R connectors. • You may install an extra hard disk drive on.the JMicron Serial ATA connector after using up the Intel® ICH7R and ASUS EZ-Backup connectors Serial ATA hard disk drive connection Connector SATA1 SATA 3/SATA4 Color Red Black Setting Master Slave Use Boot disk Data disk 5. JMicron® JMB363 Serial ATA connector (7-pin SATA_RAID1 [black]) This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable for a Serial ATA hard disk drive that you can combine with an external Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s device to configure a RAID 0, and RAID 1 set through the onboard Jmicron® JMB363 SATA RAID controller. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations. P5W GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND SATA_RAID1 ® P5W SATA RAID connector The JMicron® JMB363 Controller item in the BIOS is set to [Basic] by default, allowing you to enable the hot-plug function for the external device. Set to [Raid] to use the connector to build a RAID set. See section "4.4.6 Onboard Device Configuration" for details. 2-34 Chapter 2: Hardware information