Serial ata hard disk drive connection – Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP User Manual
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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 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