4.Intel® ICH7R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black], )

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, and RAID 5 configuration with the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel® ICH7R RAID controller. You may create a RAID 10 set through a cross-RAID configuration with the onboard Intel® ICH7R RAID controller and ASUS EZ-Backup. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up Serial ATA RAID configurations.

• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard 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 “4.3.6 IDE Configuration” for details.

•For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives.

•For RAID 10 (cross-RAID configuration), use three hard disk drives on these connectors, and one hard disk drive on EZ_RAID1. See section

“5.4.5 Cross-RAID configuration” for details.

•Use two Serial ATA hard disk drives for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GND RXN1 RSATA RXP1 RSATA GND TXN1 RSATA TXP1 RSATA GND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P5W DH DELUXE SATA connectorsImportant notes on Serial ATA

SATA3

GND RXN3_RSATA RXP3_RSATA GND TXN3_RSATA TXP3_RSATA GND

SATA4

GND RXN4_RSATA RXP4_RSATA GND TXN4_RSATA TXP4_RSATA GND

•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 connector.

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