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2-26 Chapter 2: Hardware information
Important notes on Serial ATA
• You must install Windows
®
2000 Service Pack 4 or 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
when you are using Windows
®
2000/XP.
• When using the connectors in Standard 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 connection
P5LD2
®
P5LD2 SATA connectors
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA4
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In
Standard 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 Congure SATA As item in the
BIOS to [RAID]. See section “4.3.5 IDE Conguration” on page 4-15
for details.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at
least four hard disk drives. Use two to four hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1/SATA2 Red Master Boot disk
SATA3/SATA4 Black Slave Data disk