Asus P5KR Manual page 54

3. ICH9R Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [black], SATA4 [black])
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, 1, 5,
and 10 configuration with the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology through the
onboard Intel® ICH9R RAID controller.
P5KR SATA connectors
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P5KR
P5B SATA Connectors
These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
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 4.3.6 SATA Configuration for details.
Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 Intel RAID Configuration or the
manual bundled in the motherboard support CD.
For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
You must install the Windows
hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID featur e (RAID 0,1,5 and RAID 10) is
available only if you are using Windows
When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2 connector. Refer to the table below
for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
SATA1
SATA2
SATA1
SATA3
SATA4 SATA3
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA
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XP or later version.
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Chapter 2: Hardware information
SATA2
SATA4