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Serial ata hard disk drive connection – Asus P5E-VM HDMI User Manual

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Chapter 2: Hardware information

Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.

right angle side

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

SATA1/2/5/6

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/4

Black

Slave

Data Disk

• You must install the Windows

®

XP Service Pack 1 or later version before

using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows

®

XP or later version.

• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary

(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table
below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.