Asus X58 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ASUS SABERTOOTH X58 2-29
Chapter 2
1. Intel
®
ICH10R Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA 1-6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
conguration with the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel
®
ICH10R controller.
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
3.4.2 Storage Conguration
for
details.
Before creating a RAID set, refer to section
4.4 RAID congurations
or the manual
bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows
®
XP SP 2 or later version.
When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the
Congure SATA as
in the BIOS to [AHCI].
See section
3.4.2 Storage Conguration
for details.
2.8.3 Internal connectors