3.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).

SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND

SATA1

P4C800

P4C800 SATA Connectors

GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND

Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations

Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by Intel ICH5 specifications.

Native operating systems (OS) are Windows 2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum of six (6) devices using these OS.

Legacy OS are MS-DOS, Windows 98/Me/NT4.0. ICH5 supports a maximum of four (4) devices using these OS.

 

 

 

P-ATA

 

S-ATA

Operating System

Primary

Secondary

Port 0

Port 1

 

 

(2 devices)

(2 devices)

(1 device)

(1 device)

1.

Windows 2000/XP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

Windows 98/Me/NT4.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration A

 

—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration B

—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration C

 

 

—

—

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legend:

Supported

—Disabled

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