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

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.

P4P8T Æ

P4P8T SATA connectors

SATA2

GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND

SATA1

GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND

You must install Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows® XP Service Pack1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/XP.

Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations

Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by Intel ICH5 specifications.

Native operating systems (OS) are Windows® 2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum of six (6) devices using these OS.

Legacy OS are MS-DOS, Windows® 98/ME/NT4.0. ICH5 supports a maximum of four (4) devices using these OS.

 

 

 

P - ATA

 

S - ATA

Operating System

Primary

Secondary

Port 0

Port 1

 

 

 

(2 devices)

(2 devices)

(1 device)

(1 device)

1.

Windows® 2000/XP

 

 

 

 

2.

Windows® 98/Me/NT 4.0

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration A

 

—

 

 

 

Configuration B

—

 

 

 

 

Configuration C

 

 

—

—

 

 

 

 

 

Legend:

Supported

— Disabled

 

 

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