Serial Ata Connectors - Abit AW8 User Manual

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(12). Serial ATA Connectors

These connectors are provided to attach one Serial ATA device at each channel via Serial ATA cable.
This motherboard provides RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID5 and RAID10 configuration for Serial ATA hard
drives through the Intel ICH7R chipset. You may configure a disk array by the Intel Matrix Storage
Technology RAID Driver option ROM utility.
For model "AW8-MAX", two additional SATA connectors (SATA5 and SATA6 hard drives through the
Silicon Image chipset) are provided. You may configure a disk array by the Sil3132 SATA Driver option
ROM utility.
For more information on how to configure the function mode for SATA, please refer to the item
"On-Chip SATA Mode" in the BIOS menu of "On-Chip IDE Device".
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