Asus RS120-E3 PA2 User Guide - Page 56

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4) 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, RAID 10, and software RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager, or RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 configuration using the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID utility in the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge. These connectors are set to I D E mode by default. In I D E 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 5.3.4 for details. ® P5MT-R SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 (port0) (port1) (port2) (port3) GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND P5MT-R SATA connectors Important note on Serial ATA When using the connectors in I D E mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections. Serial ATA hard disk drive connection Connector Setting Use SATA1/SATA2 SATA3/SATA4 Master Slave Boot disk Data disk 4-10 Chapter 4: Motherboard information