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Chapter 2: Hardware information
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables
for primary internal storage devices. The current Serial ATA interface
allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard
parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (UltraDMA133).
P4P800 SE
®
P4P800 SE 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
Important notes on Serial ATA
• In a legacy operating system (DOS, Windows 98, Windows Me,
Windows NT) environment, using the Serial ATA connectors will
disable the ICHR chipset support to one of the IDE channels
(either primary or secondary channel).
• The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0,1) is available only if you are
using Windows
®
XP and Windows
®
2000.
• Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not
available in this motherboard.
• Install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 when using Serial ATA.