Serial Ata Connectors - DFI PT880-ALE User Manual

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Hardware Installation

2.6.3 Serial ATA Connectors

The VIA VT8237 south bridge controller allows configuring RAID
on the two Serial ATA ports at locations J8 (SATA 1) and J9
(SATA 2) of the system board. Connect one end of the SATA
cable to J8 or J9 and the other end to your serial ATA device.
Configuring RAID on Serial ATA Drives
The system board supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD. The fol-
lowing must be set accordingly.
• BIOS Setting
1. The "SATA or SCSI Card Boot" field in the Advanced
3. Configure RAID (e.g. creating or deleting RAID) in the VIA
• Drivers and Utility
Install the "SATA RAID Drivers". Refer to chapter 4 for more
information.
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BIOS Features submenu of the Award BIOS must be prop-
erly configured.
RAID BIOS Setting Utility. You can enter this utility by
pressing the <Tab> key during system boot up.
Refer to chapter 3 for more information.
SATA 1 SATA 2
GND
7 7
RXP
RXN
GND
TXN
TXP
1 1
GND
GND
RXP
RXN
GND
TXN
TXP
GND