1.7.2Internal connectors

1.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk drives and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with the

Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the standard parallel ATA (133 MB/s).

AT3IONT-I DELUXE

SATA1

SATA3

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_TXP3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_TXN3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_RXP3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_RXN3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA2

SATA4

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_TXP4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_TXN4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_RXP4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_RXN4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AT3IONT-I SERIES SATA connectors

• Install the Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.

•If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode Select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See 2.3.4 Storage Configuration for details.

•The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB floppy disk drive when installing Windows® XP operating system on a hard disk drive that includes a RAID/AHCI set.

•Due to Windows® XP limitation, Windows® XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk drive.

•The motherboard does not support installing Windows® XP OS with SATA ODD under RAID/AHCI mode.

•You need to copy RAID driver to other media such as a USB flash disk and load RAID driver during installing Windows® Vista OS with SATA ODD.

•For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.

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