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2-30 Chapter 2: Hardware information
2. NVIDIANVIDIA
®
nForce 780a SLI Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1–4 [blue]; 7-pin SATA5–6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
and optical disk drives.
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,
through the onboard NVIDIA
®
nForce 780a SLI controller.
• SATA1–4 connectors are set to �IDE] by default. If you intend to createSATA1–4 connectors are set to �IDE] by default. If you intend to create If you intend to create
a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Operation
Mode item to �RAID] in the BIOS. See section 4.5.6 MCP Storage Cong
for details.
•
SATA 5–6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure
to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before
connecting devices to SATA 5–6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not
work.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 0+1, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations or
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
• You must install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID
5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows
®
XP or later version.
CROSSHAIR II FORMULA
®
RESET
SATA1
GND
RSATA_RXN1
RSATA_TXP1
GND
RSATA_TXN1
RSATA_TXP1
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_RXN2
RSATA_TXP2
GND
RSATA_TXN2
RSATA_TXP2
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_RXN3
RSATA_TXP3
GND
RSATA_TXN3
RSATA_TXP3
GND
SATA6
GND
RSATA_RXN6
RSATA_TXP6
GND
RSATA_TXN6
RSATA_TXP6
GND
SATA5
GND
RSATA_RXN5
RSATA_TXP5
GND
RSATA_TXN5
RSATA_TXP5
GND
SATA4
GND
RSATA_RXN4
RSATA_TXP4
GND
RSATA_TXN4
RSATA_TXP4
GND
CROSSHAIR II FORMULA SATA connectors
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
graphics cards.
right angle side