4. 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).

P4P800-VM

P4P800-VM 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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