Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 - Manual (Page 34)

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1~6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk
and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with Serial ATA
1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster than the
standard parallel ATA with 133MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 set through the onboard chipset.
• Install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a SATA RAID set, set the type of the SATA connectors to [RAID]
in the BIOS. See 2.3.4 SATA Configuration for details.
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB
floppy disk drive when installing Windows ® XP operating system on a hard disk drive
that includes a RAID/AHCI set.
• Due to Windows ® XP limitation, Windows ® XP may not recognize some USB floppy disk
drives.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
GN
D
RSATA_RXN
2
RSATA_RXP
2
RSATA_TXN
2
RSATA_TXP
2
GN
D
GN
D
SATA3G_2
GN
D
RSATA_RXN
3
RSATA_RXP
3
RSATA_TXN
3
RSATA_TXP
3
GN
D
GN
D
SATA3G_3
SATA3G_6
GN
D
RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN6
GN
D
RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_RXN6
GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_RXN
1
RSATA_RXP
1
RSATA_TXN
1
RSATA_TXP
1
GN
D
GN
D
SATA3G_1
SATA3G_5
GN
D
RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXN5
GN
D
RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXN5
GN
D
SATA3G_4
GN
D
RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4
GN
D
RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4
GN
D
M5A78L-M/USB3
M5A78L-M/USB3 SATA 3.0Gb/s connectors
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