Important notes on Serial ATA

•You must install Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003 or later version.

•When using the connectors in Standard 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.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

C o l o r

Setting

U s e

SATA1/SATA2

R e d

Master

Boot disk

 

 

 

 

SATA3/SATA4

Black

Slave

Data disk

4 . Marvell® 88SE6145 Serial ATA connectors (7-pin EXT_SATA1, EXT_SATA2, EXT_SATA3)

These connectors are for Serial ATA signal cables. These connectors support Serial ATA hard disk drives.

Set the Marvell SATA Controller and Marvell SATA BOOTROM items in the BIOS to [Enabled] to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section “4.4.6 Onboard Devices Configuration” for details.

P5W64 WS PRO

 

GND DP_2_TX_RSATA DN_2_TX_RSATA GND DN_2_RX_RSATA DP_2_RX_RSATA GND

GND DP_1_TX_RSATA DN_1_TX_RSATA GND DN_1_RX_RSATA DP_1_RX_RSATA GND

GND DP_0_TX_RSATA DN_0_TX_RSATA GND DN_0_RX_RSATA DP_0_RX_RSATA GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXT_SATA3 EXT_SATA2 EXT_SATA1

P5W64 WS PRO SATA 3 Gbps connector

Before creating a RAID set using Serial ATA hard disks, make sure that you have connected the Serial ATA signal cables and installed Serial ATA hard disk drives; otherwise, you cannot enter the Marvell® 88SE6145 RAID utility.

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