Nvidia, Nforce, Mediashield™ controller – Asus M2Ne User Manual
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ASUS M2N-E
2-2
3. NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
570 Ultra MCP Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red], SATA4 [red], SATA5 [red],
SATA6 [red])
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 3.0 Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s specification.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield™ controller.
The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by default. If you
intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID
Enabled item in the SATA Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section
“4.4.7 Onboard Device Configuration” for details.
M2N-E SATA Connectors
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P5
RS
AT
A_
TX
N5
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P5
RS
AT
A_
RX
N5
G
ND
G
ND
G
ND
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
N6
RS
AT
A_
TX
N6
RS
AT
A_
TX
N6
RS
AT
A_
RX
P6
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA1
SATA5
SATA4
SATA3
SATA2
SATA6
R
M2N-E