3. Seri al ATA connectors (7-pi n SATA1, SATA2)

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)

K8N-VM

K8N-VM SATA Connectors

GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND

SATA2

GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND

SATA1

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 and RAIID 1, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD. See page 3-5 for details.

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