Asus P5K3 Premium/WiFi-AP - Manual (Page 50)

2-24 Chapter 2: Hardware information
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 the Windows ® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID
5, and RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows ® 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
When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the Configure SATA as in the BIOS to
[AHCI]. See section 4.3.6 SATA Configuration for details.