Serial Ata Connectors - DFI G5M300-P User Manual

2.6.5 Serial ATA Connectors

The system board is equipped with two Serial ATA connectors for
connecting Serial ATA devices. Connect one end of the Serial ATA
cable to J15 (SATA 1) or J14 (SATA 2) and the other end to your
Serial ATA device.
Configuring RAID on Serial ATA Drives
The Intel 6300ESB south bridge chip allows configuring RAID on
Serial ATA drives. It supports RAID 0 and RAID 1. The following
must be set accordingly.
1. Set the "On-Chip Serial ATA" field to "Enhanced Mode". (Inte-
grated Peripherals submenu - OnChip IDE Device" section of the
Award BIOS.)
2. Set the "SATA Mode" field to "RAID". (Integrated Peripherals
submenu - OnChip IDE Device" section of the Award BIOS.)
3. Reboot the PC.
4. When the system powers-up, press the <Ctrl> and <I> keys
simultaneously to run the Intel RAID BIOS Setting Utility. The
utility is used to configure the Serial ATA drives to RAID 0 or
RAID 1.
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