Asus M4A77T/USB3 - Manual (Page 32)

4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1~6)
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 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard
disk drives, you can create RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 configurations through the
onboard SB710 chipset.
• Install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the type of
the SATA connectors in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 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 the USB floppy disk
drive.
• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included
in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.
SATA4
SATA1
GN
D
RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GN
D
RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1
GN
D
RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1
GN
D
SATA5
SATA2
GN
D
RSATA_RXN5 RSATA_RXP5 GN
D
RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2
GN
D
RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2
GN
D
SATA6
SATA3
GN
D
RSATA_RXN6 RSATA_RXP6 GN
D
RSATA_TXN6 RSATA_TXP6 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3
GN
D
RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3
GN
D
M4A77T/USB3
M4A77T/USB3 SATA connectors
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