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6. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red], SATA4 [red],
SATA5 [black], SATA6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specication. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
RAID 0+1, and JBOD conguration through the onboard controller.
Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.
• For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and
RAID 10, and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support DVD.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set
the SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See the page
2-11 for details.
• Due to the chipset’s limitation, SATA 5 and SATA 6 do not support IDE
mode, only support AHCI and RAID mode.
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M3N78-CM
SATA Connectors
GND
RSAT
A_TXP5
RSAT
A_TXN5
GND
RSAT
A_RXP5
RSAT
A_RXN5
GND
SATA5
GND
RSAT
A_TXP6
RSAT
A_TXN6
GND
RSAT
A_RXP6
RSAT
A_RXN6
GND
SATA6
GND
RSAT
A_TXP2
RSAT
A_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSAT
A_RXN2
GND
SATA2
GND
RSAT
A_TXP3
RSAT
A_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSAT
A_RXN3
GND
SATA3
GND
RSAT
A_TXP4
RSAT
A_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSAT
A_RXN4
GND
SATA4
GND
RSAT
A_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSAT
A_RXN1
GND
SATA1
Chapter 1: Product introduction 1-21