3.Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-4)

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

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,

RAID 10 and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID® utility embedded in the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge.

RXN1_A RXP1_A TXN1_A TXP1_A

DRSATRSATDRSATRSATD

GNGNGN

SATA1

RXN2_A RXP2_A TXN2_A TXP2_A

DRSATRSATDRSATRSATD

GNGNGN

P5BP-E/4L

SATA3

_A_A TXN_A_A 3RXNRXP33TXP3

DRSATRSATDRSATRSATD

GNGNGN

SATA2

RXN4_A RXP4_A TXN4_A TXP4_A

DRSATRSATDRSATRSATD

GNGNGN

P5BP-E/4L SATAConnectors SATA4

These connectors are set IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Configure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.4 IDE Configuration for details.

•Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.

•When using the connectors in 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

Setting

Use

SATA1/SATA2

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/SATA4

Slave

Data disk

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