Serial Ata/Serial Ata Raid Connectors Controlled By; Sata8; Cd-In Connector: Jcd1 - MSI Neo4 - K8N Platinum Motherboard User Manual

MS-7125 ATX Mainboard

Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by

nForce4 Ultra: SATA1 / SATA2 / SATA3 / SATA4;
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by
Silicon Image's SATARAID5
(Optional)
The Southbridge of this mainboard is nForce4 Ultra which supports four serial
ATA connectors SATA1~SATA4. Silicon Image's SATARAID5
ports another four serial ATA connectors SATA5~SATA8.
SATA1~SATA8 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports
1 st generation serial ATA data rates of 300MB/s(SATA1-4)/150 MB/s(SATA5-8). 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 the nVidia RAID
Introduction & Silicon Image RAID Introduction for detail software installation
procedure.
SATA6
1
7
SATA5
Connect to serial ATA ports
MSI Reminds You...
Please do not fold the serial ATA cable in a 90-degree angle, which will
cause the loss of data during the transmission.

CD-In Connector: JCD1

The connector is for CD-ROM audio connector.
2-18
TM
SATA2
1
7
SATA7
SATA1
1
7
SATA4

SATA8

7
SATA3
Serial ATA cable
(Optional)
: SATA5 / SATA6 / SATA7 / SATA8
TM
SATA1~ SATA8 Pin Definition
PIN SIGNAL
1 GND
3 TXN
5 RXN
7 GND
1
JCD1
of this mainboard sup-
PIN SIGNAL
2 TXP
4 GND
6 RXP
Take out the dust cover
and connect to the hard
disk devices
R
L
GND