5 . Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1, SATA_RAID2, SATA_RAID3, SATA_RAID4)

These connectors are for Serial ATA signal cables. These connectors support up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives that can be configured as a disk array through the onboard SATA RAID controller. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations.

You can configure a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 or JBOD sets on these connectors.

P5GD2

SATA_RAID2 SATA_RAID4

 

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

 

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXP4

RSATA_RXN4

GND

SATA_RAID1 SATA_RAID3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

 

 

 

 

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXP3

RSATA_RXN3

GND

P5GD2 Deluxe SATA RAID connectors

¥These connectors are set to SATA mode by default. See section Ò4.4.6 Onboard Devices ConfigurationÓ for details on changing the connectors configuration to IDE mode.

¥When in IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to any of these connectors.

¥Before creating a RAID configuration, make sure that you have connected the Serial ATA cables to these connectors and have installed the Serial ATA hard disks drives; otherwise, you cannot enter the Silicon Image RAID utility and Serial ATA BIOS setup during POST.

¥You can only create a RAID 5 and JBOD configuration using the SATALinkª Serial ATA RAID Management software. See section Ò5.2.2 Silicon Image RAID ConfigurationsÓ for details.

¥The RAID 5 driver is not Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified.

¥All four Serial ATA ports are master ports. You can install Serial ATA boot disks to any of these ports.

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