Asus Z9PE-D8 WS - Manual (Page 57)

ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS 2-35
8. Marvell ® Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors
(7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial
ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD
and one SSD to Marvell ® SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors.
• For SSD Caching setup, you can use more than one SSD and only one
HDD.
• You cannot use ASUS SSD Caching and Marvell ® RAID at the same time.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors are
recommended for data drivers.
• You must install Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using
Serial ATA hard disk drives.
• Press + during POST to enter the Marvell ® RAID utility to create
or delete a RAID configuration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID configuration
created using the Marvell ® SATA controller, you have to create a RAID
driver disk using the motherboard support DVD and load the driver during
OS installation. For 32/64bit Windows XP OS, load first the Marvell
® shared library driver, and then load Marvell ® 92xx SATA Controller
Driver. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the Marvell ® 92xx
SATA Controller Driver.