Asus M4N75TD - Manual (Page 37)

3. NVIDIA nForce ® 750a SLI ® 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 SATA hard disk
drives to the SATA connectors, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5,
or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA nForce ® 750a SLI ® controller.
• 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 set any of SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run
at RAID mode together.
• You must install Windows XP ® Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• SATA1–4 connectors are set to [IDE Mode] by default. If you intend to create a Serial
ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Mode select item in the BIOS to
[RAID Mode]. See page 2-10 for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to the manual bundled in the motherboard support
DVD.
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