Asus P5WDG2 WS PROFESSIONAL Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ASUS P5WDG2 WS Professional/P5WDG2 WS PRO/WiFi-AP 2-33
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 IDE Conguration” 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 Serial ATA hard disk
drives for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
3. ICH7R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red],
SATA2 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])
These connectors are for 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 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 conguration with the Intel
®
Matrix
Storage Technology through the onboard Intel
®
ICH7R RAID controller.
P5WDG2-WS PRO
®
P5WDG2-WS PRO SATA connectors
SATA1
SATA4 SATA3
SATA2
GND
SATA_TXP0
SATA_TXN0
GND
SATA_RXN0
SATA_RXP0
GND
GND
SATA_TXP1
SATA_TXN1
GND
SATA_RXN1
SATA_RXP1
GND
GND
SATA_TXP2
SATA_TXN2
GND
SATA_RXN2
SATA_RXP2
GND
GND
SATA_TXP3
SATA_TXN3
GND
SATA_RXN3
SATA_RXP3
GND
If any device jumper is set as “Cable-Select,” make sure all other device
jumpers have the same setting.
Black or gray
Drive jumper Mode Cable
setting of device(s) connector
Single device Cable-Select or Master - Black
Two devices Cable-Select Master Black
Slave Gray
Master Master
Slave Slave