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).

P4P8X

P4P8X SATA Connectors

SATA1

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND

SATA2

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND

Important notes on Serial ATA solution:

•In legacy operating system (Win98, WinME, WinNT, DOS) environment, using SATA will disable one of the IDE channels from ICH5 south bridge chipset. See BIOS section for correct settings.

•Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not available in this motherboard.

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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