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3.3.2
Internal connectors
1.
NVIDIA
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7-pin SATA5-6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives.
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Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
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Quadro FX470 Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-4 [red];
SATA1-4 connectors are set to [IDE] by default. If you intend to create a
SATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode select item in
the BIOS to [RAID Mode].
SATA 5-6 connectors support RAID mode and AHCI mode only. To use
these connectors, set the SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to [RAID
mode] or [AHCI Mode].
SATA devices connected to SATA 5-6 connectors can be used only as data
storage devices. Do not connect a boot device to the SATA 5-6 connectors.
Due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID or AHCI
mode, all SATA ports run at RAID or AHCI mode together.
If you intend to use SATA hard disk drives in RAID or AHCI mode, ensure to
create a RAID / AHCI driver disk using the motherboard support DVD, and
then load the RAID / AHCI driver during OS installation.
You must install the Windows XP
hard disk drives. The SATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows XP
or later version.
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Service Pack 1 before using SATA
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Right angle side
Chapter 3: Motherboard information
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