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Chapter 2: Hardware information
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COMMANDO
COMMANDO IDE connector
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
PRI_IDE
3. ICH8R Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA5, SATA6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 5, RAID 10 configuration with the Intel
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Matrix Storage Technology
through the onboard Intel
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ICH8R RAID controller.
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COMMANDO
COMMANDO SATA connectors
SATA1
GND RSA
TA
_TXP1
RSA
TA
_TXN1
GND RSA
TA
_RXP1
RSA
TA
_RXN1
GND
SATA2
GND RSA
TA
_TXP2
RSA
TA
_TXN2
GND RSA
TA
_RXP2
RSA
TA
_RXN2
GND
SATA3
GND RSA
TA
_TXP3
RSA
TA
_TXN3
GND RSA
TA
_RXP3
RSA
TA
_RXN3
GND
SATA4
GND RSA
TA
_TXP4
RSA
TA
_TXN4
GND RSA
TA
_RXP4
RSA
TA
_RXN4
GND
SATA5
GND RSA
TA
_TXP5
RSA
TA
_TXN5
GND RSA
TA
_RXP5
RSA
TA
_RXN5
GND
SATA6
GND RSA
TA
_TXP6
RSA
TA
_TXN6
GND RSA
TA
_RXP6
RSA
TA
_RXN6
GND
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these
connectors. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these
connectors, set the [Configure SATA as] item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See
section 4.3.6 IDE Configuration on page 4-14 for details.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 10, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.