Asus M4A77 - Manual (Page 34)

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, 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 RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1 configurations through the
onboard SB710 chipset.
SATA1
SATA4
GN
D
RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GN
D
RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4
GN
D
RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4
GN
D
SATA2
SATA5
GN
D
RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GN
D
RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXN5
GN
D
RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXN5
GN
D
SATA3
SATA6
GN
D
RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GN
D
RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN6
GN
D
RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_RXN6
GN
D
M4A77
M4A77 SATA connectors
• Install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 2 or later versions before using Serial ATA.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the type of
the SATA connectors in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 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.
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