Important notes on Serial ATA

•You must install Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives.

•Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.

•When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Setting

U s e

 

 

 

SATA1

Master

Boot disk

 

 

 

SATA2

Slave

Data disk

 

 

 

4 . Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1, SATA_RAID2, SATA_RAID3, SATA_RAID4)

These connectors are for Serial ATA signal cables. These connectors support up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives that you can configure as a disk array through the onboard Adaptec AIC-8130 SATA RAID controller.

SATA_RAID1 SATA_RAID2

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1

GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1

GND

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2

GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA_RAID3 SATA_RAID4

GND

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

RSATA_TXP1

 

 

 

RSATA_TXP2

 

 

 

RSATA_TXN1

 

 

 

RSATA_TXN2

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

RSATA_RXP1

 

 

 

RSATA_RXP2

 

 

 

RSATA_RXN1

 

 

 

RSATA_RXN2

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NCLV-DA SATA RAID connectors

• The SATA RAID connectors are available with the NCLV-DA model only.

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

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