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).
• Install the Windows® XP Service Pack 1 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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