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Chapter 4: Motherboard information4-10
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting Use
SATA1/SATA2 Master Boot disk
SATA3/SATA4 Slave Data disk
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, RAID 1,
RAID 10 and RAID 5 conguration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology
or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 conguration using the LSI MegaRAID
®
utility embedded in the Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
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 CongureSATAas item
in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.3.4IDEConguration for details.
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P5BP-E/4L
P5BP-E/4L
SATA Connectors
SATA1
SATA3
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
• 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.