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¨ 88SE6141 Serial ATA RAID connectors (7-pin SATA_RAID1, SATA_RAID2, SATA_RAID3, SATA_RAID4)

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 Ò4.4.6 Onboard Devices ConfigurationÓ for details.

P5WDG2-WS

 

GND DP 3 TX RSATA DN 3 TX RSATA GND DN 3 RX RSATA DP 3 RX RSATA GND

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA_RAID4 SATA_RAID3 SATA_RAID2 SATA_RAID1

P5WDG2-WS SATA RAID 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¨ 88SE6141 RAID utility.

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