Asus M4A785D-M PRO User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

• The motherboard does not provides a floppy disk drive connector. You could use a USB

floppy disk drive when installing Windows

XP operating system on a hard disk drive

that includes a RAID/AHCI set.

• Due to Windows

XP limitation, Windows

XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk

drive.

• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included

in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.

• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the OnChip

SATA Type item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See page 2-8 for details.

Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA5, SATA6)
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 Serial ATA hard disk

drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD configurations through

the onboard chipset.

Install the Windows

XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial ATA.

LPT connector (26-1 pin LPT)

The LPT (Line Printing Terminal) connector supports devices such as a printer. LPT

standardizes as IEEE 1284, which is the parallel port interface on IBM PC-compatible

computers.

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