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4-10 Chapter 4: Motherboard Information
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-4)
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 conguration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology or the LSI
MegaRAID
®
utility embedded in the Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
• By default, SATA1 and SATA3 connectors are pre-installed with two SATA
cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives.
• These connectors are set IDE mode by default. In 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
Congure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.4 IDE
Conguration for details.
Important notes on Serial ATA
• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• When using the connectors in IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard
disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
P5BV-M/RS100-E5
SATA Connectors
®
P5BV-M/RS100-E5
SATA1SATA3 SATA2 SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting Use
SATA 1/2 Master Boot disk
SATA 3/4 Slave Boot/Data disk