Nvidia, Nforce, Mediashield – Asus VISTA EDITION M2N-PLUS SLI User Manual
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ASUS M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition
2-25
3. NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
500 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red], SATA4 [red])
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 3.0 Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s specification.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield
™
controller.
The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by default. If you
intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, enable the RAID
Enable item in the SATA Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section
4.4.4 Onboard Device Configuration for details.
M2N-PLUS SLI
®
M2N-PLUS SLI IDE connectors
SEC_ID
E
PIN 1
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
PRI_ID
E
M2N-PLUS SLI
®
M2N-PLUS SLI SATA connectors
SATA1
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P1
RS
AT
A_
TX
N1
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P1
RS
AT
A_
RX
N1
G
ND
SATA3
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P3
RS
AT
A_
TX
N3
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P3
RS
AT
A_
RX
N3
G
ND
SATA4
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P4
RS
AT
A_
TX
N4
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P4
RS
AT
A_
RX
N4
G
ND
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P2
RS
AT
A_
TX
N2
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P2
RS
AT
A_
RX
N2
G
ND
SATA2
M2N-PLUS SLI
®
M2N-PLUS SLI SATA connectors
SATA1
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P1
RS
AT
A_
TX
N1
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P1
RS
AT
A_
RX
N1
G
ND
SATA3
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P3
RS
AT
A_
TX
N3
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P3
RS
AT
A_
RX
N3
G
ND
SATA4
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P4
RS
AT
A_
TX
N4
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P4
RS
AT
A_
RX
N4
G
ND
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
TX
P2
RS
AT
A_
TX
N2
G
ND
RS
AT
A_
RX
P2
RS
AT
A_
RX
N2
G
ND
SATA2