MSI K8N Neo4-F User Manual page 30

Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by
nForce4 Ultra: SATA1 / SATA2 / SATA3 / SATA4;
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by
Silicon Image's SATARAID5
(Optional)
The Southbridge of this mainboard is nForce4 Ultra which supports four serial
ATA connectors SATA1~SATA4. Silicon Image's SATARAID5
ports another four serial ATA connectors SATA5~SATA8.
SATA1~SATA8 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports
1 st generation serial ATA data rates of 300MB/s(SATA1-4)/150 MB/s(SATA5-8). Both
connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA
connector can connect to 1 hard disk device. Please refer to the nVidia RAID
Introduction & Silicon Image RAID Introduction for detail software installation
procedure.
SATA7
SATA6
1 7
7
SATA8
SATA5
Connect to serial ATA ports
MSI Reminds You...
Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90-degree angle, which will
cause the loss of data during the transmission.
CD-In Connector: JCD1
The connector is for CD-ROM audio connector.
TM
: SATA5 / SATA6 / SATA7 / SATA8
SATA2
1
7
SATA1
1
SATA4
1
7
SATA3
Serial ATA cable
(Optional)
TM of this mainboard sup-
SATA1~ SATA8 Pin Definition
PIN SIGNAL PIN
1 GND 2
3 TXN 4
5 RXN 6
7 GND
Take out the dust cover
and connect to the hard
disk devices
JCD1
R
GND
Hardware Setup
SIGNAL
TXP
GND
RXP
L
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