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3. ICH9R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives. If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you
can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 conguration with the Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology through the onboard Intel
®
ICH9R RAID controller.
P5E3
®
P5E3 SATA connectors
SATA2 SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
SATA3 SATA4
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA5SATA6
GND
RSATA_TXP6
RSATA_TXN6
GND
RSATA_RXP6
RSATA_RXN6
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP5
RSATA_TXN5
GND
RSATA_RXP5
RSATA_RXN5
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 Congure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See
section 4.3.6 SATA Conguration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to
5.4.2 Intel RAID Conguration or the
manual bundled in the motherboard Support DVD.
•
You must install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 or later version before
using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, 1,
5 and 10) is available only if you are using Windows
®
XP or later version.
•
When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the Congure SATA as in the BIOS to
[AHCI]. See section 4.3.6 SATA Conguration for details.
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 conict with huge
graphics cards.
right angle side
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA 1/2 Red Master Boot disk
SATA 3/4 Red Slave Boot/Data disk
SATA 5/6 Red Master Boot disk
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