Asus M4N78 Pro User Manual

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Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
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 5, RAID 10 and JBOD configuration through the onboard

NVIDIA

GeForce 8300 controller.

• SATA1–4 connectors are set to [SATA 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].

• 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.

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