Asus Motherboard P5LD2 Manual page 48

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P5LD2 SATA connectors
Important notes on Serial ATA
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Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector
SATA1/SATA2
SATA3/SATA4
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These connectors are set to 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" on page 4-15
for details.
For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at
least four hard disk drives. Use two to four hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
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You must install Windows
Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial
ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/ RAID 10) is available only
when you are using Windows
When using the connectors in Standard 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.
Color
Red
Black
SATA4
SATA3
SATA1 SATA2
2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
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2000/XP.
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Setting
Master
Slave
Chapter 2: Hardware information
XP
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Use
Boot disk
Data disk