Asus E2938 Hardware User Manual page 52

COMMANDO
COMMANDO IDE connector
3. ICH8R Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA5, SATA6)
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 5, RAID 10 configuration with the Intel
through the onboard Intel
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COMMANDO
COMMANDO SATA connectors
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ICH8R RAID controller.
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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 4.3.6 IDE Configuration on page 4-14 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 Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
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PRI_IDE
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
Matrix Storage Technology
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SATA1 SATA3
SATA2 SATA4
Chapter 2: Hardware information
SATA5
SATA6