Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe - Manual (Page 63)

ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Series 2-37
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
3. NVIDIA ® nForce 780a SLI Serial ATA connectors Serial ATA connectors Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1–4 [red]; 7-pin SATA5–6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
and optical disk drives.
If you install SATA hard disk drives to the SATA1/2/3/4/5/6 connectors, you
can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 and JBOD configuration
through the onboard NVIDIA ® nForce 780a SLI controller.
• SATA1–4 connectors are set to [IDE] by default. If you intend to create a
Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the Onchip SATA Type
item in the BIOS to [RAID].
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to the manual bundled in the motherboard
support DVD.
• SATA 5–6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure
to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before
connecting devices to SATA 5–6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not
work.
• Due to chipset limitation, when you set any of the SATA ports to RAID
mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode simultaneously.
• You must install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0 and RAID 1) is
available only if you are using Windows ® XP or later version.