Asus P9X79-E WS - Manual (Page 52)

3. Marvell ® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0
Gb/s signal cables.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching II, please connect one HDD and one SSD
to Marvell ® SATA6G_E12/E34 connectors.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E12/E34 connectors are recommended for data
drivers.
• You must install Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• Press + during POST to enter the Marvell RAID utility to create or delete a
RAID configuration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration created using
the Marvell SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the motherboard
support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit Windows XP OS,
load first the Marvell shared library driver, and then load Marvell 92xx SATA Controller
Driver. For Windows 7 / Windows 8 OS, load only the Marvell 92xx SATA Controller
Driver.
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