Asus P5K64 WS Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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3. ICH9R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [blue], SATA2 [blue], SATA3
[blue], SATA4 [blue], SATA5 [blue], SATA6 [blue])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0 and
RAID 1 conguration with the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology through the
onboard Intel
®
ICH9R RAID controller.
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P5K64 WS
IDE Connector
PRI_IDE
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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
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA6
GND
RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN6
GND
RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN6
GND
SATA5
GND
RSATA_TXP5
RSATA_TXN5
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXN5
GND
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 Congure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See
section 4.3.6 SATA Conguration for details.
Before creating a RAID set, refer to
5.4.2 Intel RAID Conguration or the
manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.