3.Serial ATA connectors
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.
For P5MT model only: If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and software RAID 5 configuration using the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration using the LSI MegaRAID® utility embedded on the Intel® ICH7R Southbridge.
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.
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Important notes on Serial ATA
•You must install Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 or Windows® 2003 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows® 2000/2003.
•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 connectionConnector | Setting | Use |
SATA1/SATA2 | Master | Boot disk |
SATA3/SATA4 | Slave | Data disk |
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