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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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