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Chapter 2 – Asus P9X79 PRO User Manual

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Chapter 2: Hardware information

Chapter 2

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Marvell

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Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2 [grey])

These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0

Gb/s signal cables.

The SATA6G_E1/E2 (grey) connectors are for data drives only. ATAPI device is not

supported.

• You must install Windows

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XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA

hard disk drives.

• When using NCQ, set the Marvell Storage Controller item in the BIOS to [Enabled].

Refer to section 3.5.6 Onboard Devices Configuration for details.

Press + during POST to enter the Marvell RAID utility to create or delete a

RAID configuration.

If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration created

using the Marvell SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the

motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit

Windows XP OS, load first the Marvell shared library driver, and then load Marvell

91xx SATA Controller Driver. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the

Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver.