Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection - Asus P5MT-C User 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 software RAID 5 configuration using the
Intel Matrix Storage Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1
®
configuration using the LSI MegaRAID
ICH7R Southbridge.
These connectors are set Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard 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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P5MT-C SATA Connectors
Important notes on Serial ATA
• You must install Windows
before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID
feature (RAID 0/RAID 1) is available only if you are using Windows
2000/2003.
• 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-C
utility embedded on the Intel
®
SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXN3
RSATA_RXP3
GND
SATA3
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXN2
RSATA_RXP2
GND
2000 Service Pack 4 or Windows
®
Setting Use
Master Boot disk
Slave Data disk
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXN1
RSATA_RXP1
GND
SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP0
RSATA_TXN0
GND
RSATA_RXN0
RSATA_RXP0
GND
®
2003
®
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