ASUS P5B Deluxe 2-27

3. ICH8R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black], SATA5 [red], SATA6 [red])These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 conguration with the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel® ICH8R RAID controller.
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P5B Deluxe IDE connector

PRI�IDE

NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.

PRI�IDE

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P5B Deluxe SATA connectors

SATA1

GND
RSATA�TXP3
RSATA�TXN3
GND
RSATA�RXP3
RSATA�RXN3
GND
GND
RSATA�TXP1
RSATA�TXN1
GND
RSATA�RXP1
RSATA�RXN1
GND

SATA3

GND
RSATA�TXP4
RSATA�TXN4
GND
RSATA�RXP4
RSATA�RXN4
GND

SATA4

SATA2

GND
RSATA�TXP2
RSATA�TXN2
GND
RSATA�RXP2
RSATA�RXN2
GND

SATA5

GND
RSATA�TXP5
RSATA�TXN5
GND
RSATA�RXP5
RSATA�RXN5
GND
GND
RSATA�TXP6
RSATA�TXN6
GND
RSATA�RXP6
RSATA�RXN6
GND

SATA6

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These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard

IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these

connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these

connectors, set the [Congure SATA as] item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See

section “4.3.6 IDE Conguration” on page 4-14 for details.

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For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at least

four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each

RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.