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Chapter 2

2. Intel

P55 Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA 1-6 [blue])

These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk drives

and optical disc drives.

If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10

conguration with the Intel

Matrix Storage Technology through the onboard Intel

P55

chipset.

• 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

Congure

SATA as

item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section

3.4.2 Storage Conguration

for

details.

• Before creating a RAID set, refer to section

4.4 RAID congurations

or the manual

bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

• You must install Windows

XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial

ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using

Windows

XP SP2 or later version.

• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the

Congure SATA as

in the BIOS to [AHCI].

See section

3.4.2 Storage Conguration

for details.

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