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.

Seri al ATA hard di sk dri ve connecti on

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

SATA1/SATA2

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/SATA4

Black

Slave

Data disk

 

 

 

 

4. Marvell ® 88SE614x Seri al ATA connectors

(7-pi n 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.

P5WDG2-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

P5WDG2-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® 88SE6141 RAID utility.

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