Asus P4P8X SE - Manual (Page 33)

ASUS P4P8X SE motherboard user guide 1-23
4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA
hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer
rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).
Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations
Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by
Intel ICH5 specifications.
Native operating systems (OS) are Windows 2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum
of six (6) devices using these OS.
Legacy OS are MS-DOS, Windows 98/Me/NT4.0. ICH5 supports a maximum of
four (4) devices using these OS.
Legend:
Supported
— Disabled
P-ATA S-ATA
Operating System Primary Secondary Port 0 Port 1
(2 devices) (2 devices) (1 device) (1 device)
1. Windows 2000/XP
2. Windows 98/Me/NT4.0
Configuration A —
Configuration B —
Configuration C — —
Important notes on Serial ATA solution:
• In legacy operating system (Win98, WinME, WinNT, DOS) environment,
using SATA will disable one of the IDE channels from ICH5 south bridge
chipset. See BIOS section for correct settings.
• Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not available in
this motherboard.
P4P8X SE
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P4P8X SE SATA Connectors
SATA2
GND
RSA
T
A_TXP2
RSA
T A_TXN2
GND
RSA
T A_RXP2
RSA
T
A_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSA
T
A_TXP1
RSA
T A_TXN1
GND
RSA
T A_RXP1
RSA
T
A_RXN1
GND