Asus P5AD2 Premium User Manual

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Before creating a RAID set using Ultra ATA hard disks, make sure
that you have connected the Ultra ATA signal cable and installed Ultra
ATA 133/100/66 hard disk drives.

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The system automatically assigns the boot sequence of ATAPI
devices connected to the IDE RAID connectors.

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The ITE

8212F controller supports a maximum of two Ultra ATA

hard disk drives in RAID 1 configuration.

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Before creating a RAID 1 set, make sure that you set the hard disk
drives as either Master or Slave device. Refer to the hard disk drive
documentation for details.

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I D E R A I D c o n n e c t o r s ( 4 0 - 1 p i n P R I _ R A I D 1 [ r e d ] ,

I D E R A I D c o n n e c t o r s ( 4 0 - 1 p i n P R I _ R A I D 1 [ r e d ] ,
S E C _ R A I D 1 [ r e d ] )

S E C _ R A I D 1 [ r e d ] )

S E C _ R A I D 1 [ r e d ] )
These connectors are for Ultra ATA 133/100/66 signal cables. The
IDE RAID connectors support up to four IDE hard disk drives that you
can configure as a disk array through the onboard IDE RAID controller.
Refer to Chapter 5 for details on how to set up RAID configurations.

These connectors are set to I D E

I D E

I D E M

M o d e

o d e

o d e by default. In I D E

I D E

I D E M

M o d e

o d e

o d e, you

can connect IDE devices to these connectors such as boot/data hard disk
drives or optical drives. If you intend to create an IDE RAID set using these
connectors, set the I T E 8 2 1 2 F C o n t r o l l e r

I T E 8 2 1 2 F C o n t r o l l e r

I T E 8 2 1 2 F C o n t r o l l e r item in the BIOS to [RAID

Mode]. See section “4.4.6 Onboard Devices Configuration” for details.

P5AD2 PREMIUM

P5AD2 PREMIUM IDE RAID connectors

NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
cable to PIN 1.

PRI_RAID1

PIN 1

SEC_RAID1