Manual

1-30 Chapter 1: Product introduction
4. 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 3.0 Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s specication. The data transfer rate of
the Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s is 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,
and RAID 0+1 conguration through the onboard SB600 controller.
Install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA.
• For detailed instructions on how to congure RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID
0+1, refer to the RAID manual in the support CD.
• If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set
the OnChip SATA Type item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See the page 2-17 for
details.
M2A-MX
R
M2A-MX SATA Connectors
GND
RSATA_TXP4
RSATA_TXN4
GND
RSATA_RXP4
RSATA_RXN4
GND
SATA3
GND
RSAT
A_TXP1
RSAT
A_TXN1
GND
RSAT
A_RXP1
RSAT
A_RXN1
GND
SATA1
GND
RSAT
A_TXP2
RSAT
A_TXN2
GND
RSAT
A_RXP2
RSAT
A_RXN2
GND
SATA2
GND
RSATA_TXP3
RSATA_TXN3
GND
RSATA_RXP3
RSATA_RXN3
GND
SATA4