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Chapter 1: Product introduction

3. Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA

3.0 Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is

backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.
The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer

rate while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate,

faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID

1 configuration through the onboard NVIDIA

®

MediaShield™ controller.

Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows

®

2000 Service Pack 4 or Windows

®

XP Service Pack1

before using Serial ATA.

For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0 or 1, refer to the

RAID manual in the support CD.

M2N8-VMX SATA Connectors

GND

RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1

GND

SATA1

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

SATA2