Asus P4P800-E DELUXE User Manual page 48

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables
for primary internal storage devices. The current Serial ATA interface
allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard
parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (UltraDMA133).
P4P800-E
P4P800-E SATA Connectors
Important notes on Serial ATA
1. In a legacy operating system (DOS, Windows
2. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0,1) is available only if you are
3. Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not
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Windows NT) environment, using the Serial ATA connectors will
disable the ICHR chipset support to one of the IDE channels
(either primary or secondary channel).
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using Windows XP and Windows
available in this motherboard.
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Install Windows XP Service Pack 1 when using Serial ATA.
SATA2
SATA1
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98, Windows ME,