3. Serial ATA connectors
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives. The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA/133)
A8V-VM CPU SATA Connectors
SATA3
GND _RSATATXP3 _RSATATXN3 | _RSATARXN3 _RSATARXP3 GND |
GND |
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SATA4
_RSATA_RSATA_RSATA_RSATA GNDTXP4TXN4GNDRXP4RXN4GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
RSATA_TXN2
RSATA_TXP2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
RSATA_TXN1
RSATA_TXP1
GND
Install the Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows® XP Service Pack1 before using Serial ATA.
For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, RAID1, RAID0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
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