3. Seri
al
ATA connectors 
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 0+1, and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID® utility embedded in the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge.
These connectors are set IDE
mode by default. In 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 “4.3.4 IDE Configuration” for details.
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Important
notes on Serial
ATA
•Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
•When using the connectors in IDE
mode, connect the primary (boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Seri
al
ATA hard di
sk dri
ve connecti
on
Connector | Setting | Use |
SATA1/SATA2 | Master | Boot disk |
SATA3/SATA4 | Slave | Data disk |
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