Asus P5VDC-MX manual Serial ATA connectors 7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4

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 can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD configuration through the onboard VIA VT8251 RAID controller.

P5VDC-MX

	SATA1						SATA2
RSATA_RXN1 GND		RSATA_RXP1	RSATA_TXN1 GND	RSATA_TXP1	GND	RSATA_RXN2 GND		RSATA_RXP2	RSATA_TXN2 GND	RSATA_TXP2	GND
	SATA3						SATA4
RSATA_RXN3 GND		RSATA_RXP3	RSATA_TXN3 GND	RSATA_TXP3	GND	RSATA_RXN4 GND		RSATA_RXP4	RSATA_TXN4 GND	RSATA_TXP4	GND

P5VDC-MX SATA connectors

Important notes on Serial ATA

•The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/2003 Server/XP operation system.

•The SATA ports couldn’t be Book Disk under Windows® 98SE and ME.

•Install the Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4, the Windows® XP Service Pack1 or later version before using Serial ATA.

•Please refer to section “VIA RAID Configuration” for details on SATA RAID configuration.

4 . Internal audio connectors (4-pin CD, AUX)

These connectors allow you to receive stereo audio input from sound sources such as a CD-ROM, TV tuner, MPEG card or modem.

P5VDC-MX

CD1		AUX1
(Black)		(White)
	Right Audio Channel		Right Audio Channel
	Ground		Ground
	Ground		Ground
	Left Audio Channel		Left Audio Channel

P5VDC-MX Internal audio connectors

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