4 . NVIDIA MCP-04 SouthBridge Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [blue], SATA2 [blue], SATA3 [blue], SATA4 [blue])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 or JBOD configuration with the Primary and Secondary IDE drives through the onboard NVIDIA¨ MCP-04 RAID controller. Refer to section Ò5.4.2 NVIDIA¨ RAID configurationsÓ on page 5-23 for details on how to set up Serial ATA and Parallel ATA RAID configurations.

¥ These connectors are Disabled by default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the First, Second, Third or Fourth SATA M aster RAID items in

Advanced > Onboard Devices Configuration > NVRAID Configuration of the BIOS. See section Ò4.4.8 Onboard Devices ConfigurationÓ on page 4-32 for details.

¥These connectors support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD that spans across the Parallel ATA drives.

P5ND2-SLI

 

 

SATA1

 

 

GND RSATA TXP1 RSATA TXN1 GND RSATA RXP1 RSATA RXN1 GND

SATA4

 

 

GND

RSATATXP4

RSATATXN4 GND RSATARXP4 RSATARXN4 GND

P5ND2-SLI Series SATA connectors

 

 

SATA2

GND

RSATA_RXN2

RSATA_RXP2

GND

RSATA_TXN2

RSATA_TXP2

GND

SATA3

_RSATA_RSATA_RSATA_RSATA GNDTXP3TXN3GNDRXP3RXN3GND

These connectors support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Power Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm, Hot Swap and smart setup.

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