Asus M5A88-V EVO User Manual page 45

2. AMD SB850 Serial ATA Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA 1/2/3/5/6)
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These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
or RAID 10 configuration through the onboard AMD
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These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In IDE mode, you can connect
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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 type of the SATA connectors to
[RAID] in the BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.
• You must install Windows
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows
When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the type of the SATA connectors to [AHCI] in the
•
BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.
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SATA6G_5
SATA6G_6 SATA6G_2
SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors
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XP Service Pack 3 or later version before using Serial
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® XP SP3 or later version.
® SB850 controller.
SATA6G_3
SATA6G_1
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