Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection - Asus Motherboard P5MT-S Owner's Manual

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3,
SATA4)
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 0+1, and RAID 5 configuration using the Intel
Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configuration
using the LSI MegaRAID
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 Configure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section "4.3.4
IDE Configuration" for details.
P5MT-S SATA Connectors
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.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector
SATA1/SATA2
SATA3/SATA4
ASUS P5MT-S
utility embedded in the Intel
®
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
Setting Use
Master Boot disk
Slave Data disk
®
ICH7R
®
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
Matrix
2-25