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

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA

3.0Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.

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 DMA133).

If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1 configuration through the onboard NVIDIA® MediaShield™ controller.

SATA1

SATA2

GND

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_TXP1

 

 

 

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_TXN1

 

 

 

RSATA_RXP2

GND

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_RXP1

 

 

 

RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_RXN1

 

 

 

RSATA_TXP2

GND

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

 

 

M2N8-VMX SATA Connectors

Important note on Serial ATA

Install the Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or Windows® XP Service Pack1 before using Serial ATA.

For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0 or 1, refer to the

RAID manual in the support CD.

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