Asus P5N64 WS Professional User Manual page 52

3. nForce
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These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives.
P5N64 WS PRO
P5N64 WS Professional SATA connectors
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Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector
SATA 1/2
SATA 3/4
SATA 5/6
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
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790i Ultra SLI™ Serial ATA connectors [red] (7-pin SATA1-6)
P5B SATA Connectors
Refer to the table below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive
connections.
These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard drives to these
connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these
connectors, set the nVIDIA RAID Function item in the BIOS to [Enabled].
See section 4.3.7 IDE Configuration for details.
Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 NVIDIA
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
Color
Red
Red
Red
SATA5
SATA1
GND GND
RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXN6
GND GND
RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN5 RSATA_RXN6
GND GND
SATA3
GND GND
RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXN4
GND GND
SATA3
RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXN4
GND GND
SATA1
GND GND
RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXN2
GND GND
RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXN2
GND GND
Setting
Master
Master
Master
right angle side
Chapter 2: Hardware information
SATA6
SATA2
SATA4
SATA4
SATA2
RAID configurations or
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Use
Boot disk
Boot disk
Boot disk