Asus AT3N7A-I User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk

drives and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3Gb/s is backward compatible with the

Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification. The data transfer rate of the Serial ATA 3Gb/s is faster

than the standard parallel ATA (133 MB/s).

• Install the Windows

XP Service Pack 1 or later versions before using Serial ATA.

• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA

Mode Select item in the BIOS to [RAID Mode]. See 2.3.4 Storage 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.

• The motherboard does not support installing Windows

XP OS with SATA ODD under

RAID/AHCI mode.

• You need to copy RAID driver to other media such as a USB flash disk and load RAID

driver during installing Windows

Vista OS with SATA ODD.

• For more details on RAID/AHCI, refer to the RAID/AHCI Supplementary Guide included

in the folder named Manual in the support DVD.