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4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1~6)
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 133MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 set through the onboard chipset.
• Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a SATA RAID set, set the type of the SATA connectors to [RAID]
in the BIOS. See 2.3.4 SATA Conguration for details.
• The motherboard does not provide a oppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
oppy disk drive when installing Windows
®
XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows
®
XP limitation, Windows
®
XP may not recognize some USB oppy disk
drives.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
GND
RSATA_RXN2
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_TXN2
RSATA_TXP2
GND
GND
SATA3G_2
GND
RSATA_RXN3
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_TXN3
RSATA_TXP3
GND
GND
SATA3G_3
SATA3G_6
GND
RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN6
GND
RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN6
GND
GND
RSATA_RXN1
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_TXN1
RSATA_TXP1
GND
GND
SATA3G_1
SATA3G_5
GND
RSATA_TXP5
RSATA_TXN5
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXN5
GND
SATA3G_4
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
M5A78L-M/USB3
M5A78L-M/USB3 SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors
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