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Chapter 2 – Asus M4A88TD-M/USB3 User Manual

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2.

AMD

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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 type of the SATA connectors to

[RAID] in the BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.

You must install Windows

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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

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XP SP2 or later version.

When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the type of the SATA connectors to [AHCI] in the

BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.

3.

LPT connector (26-1 pin LPT)
The LPT (Line Printing Terminal) connector supports devices such as a printer. LPT is

standardized as IEEE 1284, which is the parallel port interface on IBM PC-compatible

computers.