Hardware Setup
AW8D 2-17
2.5.5 Serial ATA Connectors
Each SATA connector serves as one single channel to connect one SATA device by a thin SATA
cable.
The disk array for RAID configuration is also provided through these SATA connectors:
• SATA1~SATA4: Available for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10 configuration by the
utility “Intel Matrix Storage Manager”.
• SATA5~SATA6: Available for RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration by the utility “Sil3132 SATA
RAID Driver”.
For more information on how to configure the function mode for SATA, please refer to the item
“On-Chip SATA” in the BIOS menu of “On-Chip IDE Device”.
SATA signal cable (optional)
SATA power cable (optional)