right angle side

Connect the right-angle side of the SATA signal cable to the SATA device or you may connect the right-angle side of the SATA cable to the onboard SATA port to avoid placement conflict with huge graphics cards.

4.JMicron JMB363® Serial ATA RAID connector (7-pin SATA_RAID1)

This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable. This connector supports a Serial ATA hard disk drive that you can configure for RAID through the onboard Serial ATA RAID controller.

The JMicron JMB363 controller item in the BIOS is set to [IDE] by default, allowing you to enable the hot-plug function for the external device. Set to [AHCI] to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section “4.4.7 Onboard Device Configuration” for details.

M2N-SLI DELUXE

SATA_RAID1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

M2N-SLI DELUXE SATA RAID Connector

Before creating a RAID set using Serial ATA hard disks, make sure that you have connected the Serial ATA signal cables and installed Serial ATA hard disk drives; otherwise, you cannot enter the JMicron® JMB363 RAID utility and SATA BIOS setup during POST.

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