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Serial ata hard disk drive connection – Asus P5B-E Plus User Manual

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ASUS P5B-E Plus

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Connect the right-angle side

of SATA signal cable to SATA

device. Or you may connect the

right-angle side of SATA cable to

the onboard SATA port to avoid

mechanical conflict with huge

graphics cards.

right angle side

• You must install Windows

®

2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows

®

XP

Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA

RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 10) is available only if you are

using Windows

®

2000/XP or later version.

• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary

(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table

below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector

Color

Setting

Use

SATA1/2/5/6

Red

Master

Boot disk

SATA3/4

Black

Slave

Data Disk