Asus M4A785T-M User Manual

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Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk

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

1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the

standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk

drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations through

the onboard SB710 chipset.

• Install the Windows

XP Service Pack 1 or later versions before using Serial ATA.

• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA

Port1-Port4 and SATA Port5-Port6 items in the BIOS to [RAID]. See 2.3.4 SATA

Configuration for details.

• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB

floppy disk drive when installing Windows

XP operating system on a hard disk drive

that includes a RAID/AHCI set.

• Due to Windows

XP limitation, Windows

XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk

drive.

• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included

in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.

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