Asus P5GD2 manual Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors

4 . Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [Red], SATA2 [Red], SATA3 [Black], SATA4 [Black])

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 or RAID 1 configuration using the Intel¨ Matrix Storage Technology. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial RAID configurations.

These connectors are set to Standard IDE configuration 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, adjust the RAID controller setting in the BIOS Setup. See section Ò4.3.6 IDE ConfigurationÓ on page 4-15 for details.

P5GD2

SATA2

SATA1

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2

GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2

GND

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1

GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1

GND

SATA4

SATA3

GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4

GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4

GND

GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3

GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3

GND

P5GD2 Deluxe SATA connectors

Important notes on Serial ATA

¥These connectors support the Intel¨ Matrix Storage Technology.

¥The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows¨ 2000/XP.

¥Install the Windows¨ 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows¨ XP Service Pack1 when using Serial ATA.

¥Use only a maximum of 2 ports for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.

¥Plug your Serial ATA boot disk on the master port (SATA1 and SATA2) to support S3 function. Refer to the table below for details.

Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors

Connector	Setting	C o l o r	Use
SATA1, SATA2	Master	Red	Boot disk
SATA3, SATA4	Slave	Black	Data disk

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