Asus P9X79 WS - Manual (Page 53)

3. Marvell ® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2 [navy blue])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial
ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD and
one SSD to Marvell ® SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2 connectors are recommended for data
drivers.
• You must install Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using
Serial ATA hard disk drives.
• Press + during POST to enter the Marvell RAID utility to create
or delete a RAID configuration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration
created using the Marvell SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk
using the motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation.
For 32/64bit Windows XP OS, load first the Marvell shared library driver,
and then load Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver. For Windows Vista /
Windows 7 OS, load only the Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver.
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