4.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA-IDE3, SATA-IDE4)

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).

PSCH-L

SATA_IDE3

SATA_IDE4

GND

RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND

RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GND

PSCH-L SATA Connectors

5.Serial ATA RAID connectors(7-pin R-SATA1, R-SATA2, R-SATA3, R-SATA4)

These Serial ATA connectors support SATA hard disks that you may configure as a RAID set. Through the onboard Promise® PDC20319 RAID controller, you may create a RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, or multi- RAID configuration.

PSCH-L

PSCH-L SATA RAID Connectors

R-SATA1 R-SATA2 R-SATA3 R-SATA4

GND

RSATA_RXN1

RSATA_RXP1

GND

RSATA_TXN1

RSATA_TXP1

GND

1. If you wish to create a RAID set, make sure that you have connected the SATA cable and installed Serial ATA devices. You cannot enter the SATARaid™ utility and SATA BIOS setup during POST if there are no connected Serial ATA devices.

2.The Promise® PDC20319 RAID controller does not support ATAPI devices such as CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, etc.

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