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4.
Intel
ICH7R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 [red],
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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, RAID 1,
and RAID 5 configuration with the Intel
the onboard Intel
through a cross-RAID configuration with the onboard Intel
controller and ASUS EZ-Backup. Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set
up Serial ATA RAID configurations.
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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 IDE Configuration" for details.
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For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives.
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For RAID 10 (cross-RAID configuration), use three hard disk drives on
these connectors, and one hard disk drive on EZ_RAID1. See section
"5.4.5 Cross-RAID configuration" for details.
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Use two Serial ATA hard disk drives for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
P5W SATA connectors
Important notes on Serial ATA
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You must install Windows
Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA
RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are
using Windows
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When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1 connector.
ASUS P5W
ICH7R RAID controller. You may create a RAID 10 set
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2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
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2000/XP/Server 2003 or later version.
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Matrix Storage Technology through
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SATA1
SATA3
SATA4
ICH7R RAID
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XP
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