Asus P5E-VM HDMI 3.ICH9R Serial ATA connectors

• Pin 20 on the IDE connector is removed to match the covered hole on the Ultra DMA cable connector. This prevents incorrect insertion when you connect the IDE cable.

•Use the 80-conductor IDE cable for Ultra DMA 133/100/66 IDE devices.

If any device jumper is set as “Cable-Select,” make sure all other device jumpers have the same setting.

3.ICH9R 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, and RAID 10 configuration with the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel® ICH9R RAID controller.

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P5E-VM HDMI SATA connectors

GND RSATA RXN2 RSATA RXP2 GND RSATA TXN2 RSATA TXP2 GND		GND RSATA RXN1 RSATA RXP1 GND RSATA TXN1 RSATA TXP1 GND
	SATA2		SATA1
GND RSATA RXN4 RSATA RXP4 GND RSATA TXN4 RSATA TXP4 GND		GND RSATA RXN3 RSATA RXP3 GND RSATA TXN3 RSATA TXP3 GND
	SATA4		SATA3
GND RSATA RXN6 RSATA RXP6 GND RSATA TXN6 RSATA TXP6 GND		GND RSATA RXN5 RSATA RXP5 GND RSATA TXN5 RSATA TXP5 GND
	SATA6		SATA5

• 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 Configure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.6 SATA Configuration for details.

•Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.3 Intel RAID Configuration or the manual bundled in the motherboard support CD.

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