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 ATA133).

P4P800-MX

P4P800-MX SATA Connectors

SATA2

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND

SATA1

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 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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