Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS 2-35
8. Marvell
®
Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial
ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables.
For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD
and one SSD to Marvell
®
SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors.
For SSD Caching setup, you can use more than one SSD and only one
HDD.
You cannot use ASUS SSD Caching and Marvell
®
RAID at the same time.
For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors are
recommended for data drivers.
You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using
Serial ATA hard disk drives.
Press <Ctrl> + <M> during POST to enter the Marvell
®
RAID utility to create
or delete a RAID conguration.
If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID conguration
created using the Marvell
®
SATA controller, you have to create a RAID
driver disk using the motherboard support DVD and load the driver during
OS installation. For 32/64bit Windows XP OS, load rst the
Marvell
®
shared library
driver, and then load
Marvell
®
92xx SATA Controller
Driver
. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the
Marvell
®
92xx
SATA Controller Driver
.