Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection - Asus M2N-VM DVI User Manual

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA
3Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the
Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra
DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD configuration through the onboard controller.
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• For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
RAID 10, and JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set
the SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See the
page 2-15 for details.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector
SATA1/2
SATA3/4
ASUS M2N-CM DVI
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.
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Color
Red
Black
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
Master
Slave
Use
Boot disk
Data disk
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