Serial Ata Connectors - Asus M2N-VM DH Manual

5.

Serial ATA connectors

(7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
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 Gb/s is
backward compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specification.
The current Serial ATA I interface allows up to 150 MB/s data transfer
rate while Serial ATA II allows up to 300 MB/s data transfer rate,
faster than the standard parallel ATA with 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA133).
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID
0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configuration through the
onboard NVIDIA
M2N-VM DH
M2N-VM DH SATA Connectors
Important note on Serial ATA
Install the Windows
Pack1 before using Serial ATA.
• For detailed instructions on how to configure RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5,and
JBOD, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
• 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 Enabled item in the Serial-ATA
Configuration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section "2.4.5 Onboard
Device Configuration" for details.
ASUS M2N-VM DH
MediaShield™ controller.
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2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
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SATA2
SATA1
GND GND
RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXN2
RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXP2
GND GND
RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXN2
RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXP2
GND GND
SATA4
SATA3
GND
GND
RSATA_RXN3
RSATA_RXN4
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXP4
GND
GND
RSATA_TXN3
RSATA_TXN4
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXP4
GND
GND
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