Mediashield™ raid controller, Striker sata connectors sata1, Sata2 – Asus Striker User Manual
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Chapter 2: Hardware information
Connect the right-angle side of SATA
signal cable to the SATA device, or
connect the right-angle side of the
SATA cable to the onboard SATA port
to avoid mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
Right-angle side
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA5,
SATA6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration with the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield™ RAID controller.
The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by default. If you
intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID
Enabled item under the Serial ATA Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See
section “4.5.3 Onboard Device Configuration” for details.
These connectors support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Power
Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm, Hot Swap and smart setup.
STRIKER
®
STRIKER SATA connectors
SATA1
GND RS
AT
A_TXP1
RS
AT
A_TXN1
GND RS
AT
A_RXP1
RS
AT
A_RXN1
GND
SATA2
GND RS
AT
A_TXP2
RS
AT
A_TXN2
GND RS
AT
A_RXP2
RS
AT
A_RXN2
GND
SATA3
GND RS
AT
A_TXP3
RS
AT
A_TXN3
GND RS
AT
A_RXP3
RS
AT
A_RXN3
GND
SATA4
GND RS
AT
A_TXP4
RS
AT
A_TXN4
GND RS
AT
A_RXP4
RS
AT
A_RXN4
GND
SATA5
GND RS
AT
A_TXP5
RS
AT
A_TXN5
GND RS
AT
A_RXP5
RS
AT
A_RXN5
GND
SATA6
GND RS
AT
A_TXP6
RS
AT
A_TXN6
GND RS
AT
A_RXP6
RS
AT
A_RXN6
GND