These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID in the Intel® 6300ESB Southbridge chip.
These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In
Standard IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
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. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 or RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/XP.
•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 connector. Refer to the table on the next page for recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
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