Asus P4P800-MX Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Chapter 1: Product introduction
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA
hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer
rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA133).
Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations
Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by
Intel ICH5 specifications.
Native operating systems (OS) are Windows
®
2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum
of six (6) devices using these OS.
Legacy OS are MS-DOS, Windows
®
98/Me/NT4.0
®
. ICH5 supports a maximum of
four (4) devices using these OS.
Legend:
Supported
Disabled
P-ATA S-ATA
Operating System Primary Secondary Port 0 Port 1
(2 devices) (2 devices) (1 device) (1 device)
1. Windows
®
2000/XP
2. Windows
®
98/Me/NT4.0
®
Configuration A
Configuration B
Configuration C ——
P4P800-MX
®
P4P800-MX SATA Connectors
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND