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2-30 Chapter 2: Hardware information
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1–6)
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, RAID
®
MediaShield™
RAID controller.
• These connectors are set to [Disabled] 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,
enable the [RAID Enabled] item in the BIOS. See section 4.5.3 Onboard
Devices Conguration for details.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 0+1, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations or
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
graphics cards.
right angle side
You must install 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 if you are using Windows
®
XP or later version.