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Serial.ATA.connectors.(7-pin.SATA1,.SATA2,.SATA3,.SATA4)
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 and
RAID 1 configuration using the Intel
RAID 1 configuration using the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID utility in the
®
Intel
ICH7R Southbridge.
These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In 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 5.3.4 for details.
P5M2-R
P5M2-R.SATA.connectors
When using the connectors in IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard
disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Serial.ATA.hard.disk.drive.connection
Connector
SATA1/SATA2
SATA3/SATA4
4-10
®
Setting
Master
Slave
®
Matrix Storage Manager, or RAID 0, and
SATA1
SATA2
(port0)
(port1)
Use
Boot disk
Data disk
Chapter 4: Motherboard information
SATA3
SATA4
(port2)
(port3)
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