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Mediashield™ controller, Asus m2n-mx 1-23, M2n-mx sata connectors – Asus M2N-MX User Manual

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ASUS M2N-MX

1-23

3. Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA

3.0 Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is

backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.
The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer

rate while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate,

faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID

0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configuration through the

onboard NVIDIA

®

MediaShield™ controller.

Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows

®

2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows

®

XP Service

Pack1 before using Serial ATA.

• For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5,and

JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.

• The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by

default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these

connectors, enable the RAID Enabled item in the NVRAID

Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section “2.4.3 Onboard

Device Configuration” for details.

M2N-MX

R

M2N-MX SATA Connectors

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXP3

RSATA_RXN3

GND

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXP4

RSATA_RXN4

GND

SATA3

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

SATA1

SATA4

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA2

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