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Xp and windows, Xp service pack 1 when using serial ata, Sata1 – Asus P4P800 SE User Manual

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Chapter 2: Hardware information

3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)

These next generation connectors support the thin Serial ATA cables
for primary internal storage devices. The current Serial ATA interface
allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer rate, faster than the standard
parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (UltraDMA133).

P4P800 SE

®

P4P800 SE SATA Connectors

SATA2

GND

RSA

TA_TXP2

RSA

TA_TXN2

GND

RSA

TA_RXP2

RSA

TA_RXN2

GND

SATA1

GND

RSA

TA_TXP1

RSA

TA_TXN1

GND

RSA

TA_RXP1

RSA

TA_RXN1

GND

Important notes on Serial ATA

In a legacy operating system (DOS, Windows 98, Windows Me,
Windows NT) environment, using the Serial ATA connectors will
disable the ICHR chipset support to one of the IDE channels
(either primary or secondary channel).

The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0,1)

is available only if you are

using Windows

®

XP and Windows

®

2000.

Hot plug support for Serial ATA drive and connections are not
available in this motherboard.

Install Windows

®

XP Service Pack 1 when using Serial ATA.