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Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1 , SATA2 Blue Master Boot Disk
SATA3, SATA4 Black Slave Data Disk
Serial ATA Master/Slave connectors

4. Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1 [blue], SATA2 [blue], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk

drives.

Important notes on Serial ATA
•
The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1) is available only if you are
using Windows
®
XP.
•
Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial AT A.
• Use only a maximum of two ports for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
•
Plug your Serial ATA boot disk on the master port (SATA1 and SAT A2) to
support S3 function. Refer to the table below for details.
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.

P5SD2-FM SATA connectors

SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
P5SD2-FM
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