Asus P4P8X - Manual (Page 33)

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4. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables for Serial ATA
hard disks. The current Serial ATA interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer
rate, faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra ATA/133).
P4P8X
®
P4P8X SATA Connectors
SATA2
GND
RSA
T A_TXP2
RSA
T
A_TXN2
GND
RSA
T A_RXP2
RSA
T A_RXN2
GND
SATA1
GND
RSA
T A_TXP1
RSA
T
A_TXN1
GND
RSA
T A_RXP1
RSA
T A_RXN1
GND
Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations
Following are the Parallel ATA and Serial ATA device configurations supported by
Intel ICH5 specifications.
Native operating systems (OS) are Windows 2000/XP. ICH5 supports a maximum
of six (6) devices using these OS.
Legacy OS are MS-DOS, Windows 98/Me/NT4.0. ICH5 supports a maximum of
four (4) devices using these OS.
Legend:
Supported
— Disabled
P-ATA S-ATA
Operating System Primary Secondary Port 0 Port 1
(2 devices) (2 devices) (1 device) (1 device)
1. Windows 2000/XP
2. Windows 98/Me/NT4.0
Configuration A —
Configuration B —
Configuration C — —
Important notes on Serial ATA solution:
• In legacy operating system (Win98, WinME, WinNT, DOS) environment,
using SATA will disable one of the IDE channels from ICH5 south bridge
chipset. See BIOS section for correct settings.
• Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not available in
this motherboard.