Asus M4A78L-M - Manual (Page 38)

6. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1 – 6)
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 133MB/s (Ultra DMA133). If you install Serial ATA hard disk
drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1 set through the onboard SB710
chipset.
• Install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 1 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a SATA RAID set, set the type of the SATA connectors to [RAID]
in the BIOS. See 2.3.4 SATA Configuration for details.
• The motherboard does not provide 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.
SATA3
GN
D
RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GN
D
RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GN
D
SATA2
GN
D
RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GN
D
RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GN
D
SATA1
GN
D
RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GN
D
RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GN
D
SATA4
GN
D
RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GN
D
RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GN
D
SATA5
GN
D
RSATA_RXN5 RSATA_RXP5 GN
D
RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GN
D
SATA6
GN
D
RSATA_RXN6 RSATA_RXP6 GN
D
RSATA_TXN6 RSATA_TXP6 GN
D
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