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Asus M4A87TD EVO User Manual

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3.

AMD

®

SB850 Serial ATA Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA 1-6)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk

drives and optical disc drives.

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,

or RAID 10 configuration through the onboard AMD

®

SB850 controller.

• These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In 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 SATA Port item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See

section 2.4.2 Storage Configuration for details.

• You must install Windows

®

XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial

ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using

Windows

®

XP SP2 or later version.

• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the SATA Port item in the BIOS to [AHCI]. See

section 2.4.2 Storage Configuration for details.

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