3.Marvell® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables.

For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching II, please connect one HDD and one SSD to Marvell® SATA6G_E12/E34 connectors.

For regular usage, the SATA6G_E12/E34 connectors are recommended for data drivers.

You must install Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA hard disk drives.

Press <Ctrl> + <M> during POST to enter the Marvell RAID utility to create or delete a RAID configuration.

If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration created using the Marvell SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit Windows XP OS, load first the Marvell shared library driver, and then load Marvell 92xx SATA Controller Driver. For Windows 7 / Windows 8 OS, load only the Marvell 92xx SATA Controller Driver.

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