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Mediashield™ raid controller, Striker sata connectors sata1, Sata2 – Asus Striker User Manual

Page 52: Sata3, Sata4, Sata5, Sata6

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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