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3 .

N V I D I A

n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A

c o n n e c t o r s ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 [ b l u e ] , S A T A 2 [ b l u e ] , S A T A 3

c o n n e c t o r s ( 7 - p i n S A T A 1 [ b l u e ] , S A T A 2 [ b l u e ] , S A T A 3
[ b l u e ] , S A T A 4 [ b l u e ] )

[ b l u e ] , S A T A 4 [ b l u e ] )

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.

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard
NVIDIA

nForce™ 4 SLI RAID controller. Refer to section “5.4.2

NVIDIA

RAID configurations” for details on how to set up Serial ATA

RAID configurations.

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 n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n

n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n

n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n item in the BIOS. See section

“4.3.7 IDE Configuration” for details.

These connectors support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Power
Management (PM) Implementation Algorithm, Hot Swap and smart setup.

P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe

P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe SATA connectors

SATA1

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA3

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXP3

RSATA_RXN3

GND

SATA4

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXP4

RSATA_RXN4

GND