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Chapter 1: Product introduction

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3.0

Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is backward

compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.
The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate

while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the

standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,

RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA

MediaShield™ controller.

Install the Windows

2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows

XP Service Pack1

before using Serial ATA.

• For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5,and

JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.

• By default, RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled]. If

you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable

the nVidia RAID Function item in the IDE Configuration sub-menu in

the BIOS. See section “2.3.4 IDE Configuration” for details.

M2N68

M2N68 SATA Connectors

SATA2

SATA1

SATA3

SATA4