Asus P5BV-C - Motherboard - ATX User Manual page 45

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA_
RAID5, SATA_RAID6, SATA_RAID7, and SATA_RAID8)
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
Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configurations using the LSI
MegaRAID utility embedded in the Intel
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These connectors are set to 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 "4.3.5 IDE Configuration" for details.
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P5BV-C/4L
P5BV-C/4L SATA Connectors
• 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
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disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA3 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector
SATA1/SATA3
SATA2/SATA4
ASUS P5BV-C Series
ICH7R Southbridge.
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SATA1
SATA2
SATA_
RAID5
SATA_
RAID7
Setting Use
Master Boot disk
Slave Data disk
Matrix Storage
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SATA3
SATA4
SATA_
RAID6
SATA_
RAID8
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