6.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives and Windows® XP operating system, you can create a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration using the Adaptec HostRAID technology embedded in the Intel® 6300ESB.

PSCH-SR

PSCH-SR SATA Connectors

SATA2

GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND

SATA1

GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND

Important notes on Serial ATA

•In a legacy operating system (DOS) environment, using the Serial ATA connectors will disable the Southbridge support to one of the IDE channels (either primary or secondary channel).

•The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 and RAID 1) is only available under Windows® XP.

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