Asus P5B Premium Vista Edition - Manual (Page 54)

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4. JMicron JMB363 ® Serial ATA RAID connector (7-pin SATA_RAID)
This connector is for a Serial ATA signal cable. This connector supports a
Serial ATA hard disk drive, which you can combine with an external Serial
ATA hard disk drive to configure for RAID via the onboard Serial ATA RAID
controller.
The JMicron JMB363 controller item in the BIOS is set to [IDE] by default,
allowing you to use the connectors to build a RAID set. See section “4.4.6
Onboard Device Configuration” for details.
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Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
right angle side
• You must install Windows ® 2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows ® XP
Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA
RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are
using Windows ® 2000/XP or later version.
• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table
below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1/2/5/6 Red Master Boot disk
SATA3/4 Black Slave Data Disk