Serial Ata/Serial Ata Raid Connectors Controlled By; Vt8237: Sata1/Sata2; Parallel Ata/Serial Ata Raid Connectors Controlled By - MSI K8T Neo2-F User Manual

MS-6702E ATX Mainboard
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors con-
trolled by VT8237: SATA1/SATA2
The Southbridge of this mainboard is VT8237 which supports
two serial connectors SATA1 and SATA2.
SATA1 & SATA2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface
ports. Each supports 1
150 MB/s. Both connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA
1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect to
one hard disk device. Please refer to VIA Serial ATA/Serial
ATA RAID manual for detailed software installation procedure.
Parallel ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by Promise
20579: IDE3/SER1/SER2 (Optional)
The brand new Promise 20579 chipset supports one IDE connector IDE3 and two
serial connectors SER1& SER2.
IDE3 is a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 controller that provides
PIO mode and DMA mode 0~5, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 function. You
can connect up to 2 hard disk drives---one IDE master and one IDE slave.
SER1 & SER2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports 1
generation serial ATA data rates of 150 MB/s. Both connectors are fully compliant
with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect to 1 hard
disk device. Please refer to Chapter 5 Promise FastTrak579 Parallel ATA/Serial ATA
Raid section for detail software installation procedure.
IDE3
SER2
SER1
Optional Serial ATA cable
Connect to SER1 / SER2 or
SATA1 / SATA2
2-18
st
generation serial ATA data rates of
Pin
1
3
1
5
7
7
7
SER1 & SER2 Pin Definition
Signal Pin
GND 2
TXN 4
RXN 6
GND
Take out the dust cover and
connect to the hard disk
devices
1
SATA2
SATA1
st
Signal
TXP
GND
RXP