User's Manual

Chapter 3: Motherboard information3-18
3.5.4 Internal connectors
1. Marvell
®
Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 [gray])
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 6.0
Gb/s signal cables.
• For high performance of ASUS SSD Caching, please connect one HDD and one SSD
to Marvell
®
SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors.
• For SSD Caching setup, you can use more than one SSD and only one HDD.
• You cannot use ASUS SSD Caching and Marvell
®
RAID at the same time.
• For regular usage, the SATA6G_E1/E2/E3/E4 connectors are recommended for data
drivers.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 3 or later versions before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives.
• Press <Ctrl> + <M> during POST to enter the Marvell
®
RAID utility to create or delete
a RAID conguration.
• If you want to install a Windows operating system to a RAID conguration created
using the Marvell
®
SATA controller, you have to create a RAID driver disk using the
motherboard support DVD and load the driver during OS installation. For 32/64bit
Windows XP OS, load rst the
Marvell
®
shared library
driver, and then load
Marvell
®
92xx SATA Controller Dri
ver. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, load only the
Marvell
®
92xx SATA Controller Driver
.