2.Marvell® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA_6G_1, 7-pin SATA_6G_2 [gray])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives.

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•These connectors are set to IDE Mode by default. When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the Marvell 9128 Controller item in the BIOS to [AHCI Mode]. Refer to section 3.6.3

Onboard Devices Configuration for details.

•You must install Windows® XP Service Pack 2 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 91xx SATA Controller Driver. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the

Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver.

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