•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/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/XP or later version.

•When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

 

 

 

 

SATA1/2/5/6

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/4

Black

Slave

Data Disk

right angle side

Connect the right-angle side of SATA signal cable to SATA device. Or you may connect the right-angle side of SATA cable to the onboard SATA port to avoid mechanical conflict with huge graphics cards.

4.JMicron JMB363® Serial ATA RAID connector (7-pin SATA_RAID)

This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable. This connector supports a Serial ATA hard disk drive, which you can combine with an external Serial

ATA hard disk drive to configure for RAID via the onboard Serial ATA RAID controller.

The JMicron JMB363 controller item in the BIOS is set to [IDE] by default, allowing you to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section 4.4.7 Onboard Device Configuration for details.

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SATA_RAID1

 

GND RXN1 RSATA RXP1 RSATA GND TXN1 RSATA TXP1 RSATA GND

 

P5B PREMIUM SATA_RAID connector

 

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