4 . Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

Supported by the NVIDIA® nForce™4 SLI chipset, these connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives that allow up to 3Gb/s of data transfer rate.

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 1+0 configuration that span across the Parallel ATA drives.

These connectors are set to SAT A by default. In SATA mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot or data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID function of each port from the NVRAID Configuration sub-menu item in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration” on pages 2-24 and 2-26 for details.

A8N-SLI

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN4

RSATA_RXP4

GND RSATA_TXN4

RSATA_TXP4

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN3

RSATA_RXP3

GND RSATA_TXN3

RSATA_TXP3

GND

SATA4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_TXP2

GND

 

 

GND RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A8N-SLI SATA connectors

The actual data transfer rate depends on the speed of Serial ATA hard disks installed.

Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors

Connector

C o l o r

Setting

U s e

 

 

 

 

SATA1 , SATA2

Black

Master

Boot Disk

 

 

 

 

SATA3 , SATA4

Black

Slave

Data Disk

 

 

 

 

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