User's Manual

ASUS P5BV-C Series 2-25
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4, SATA_
RAID5, SATA_RAID6, SATA_RAID7, and SATA_RAID8)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, and RAID 5 conguration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology or RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 congurations using the LSI
MegaRAID
®
utility embedded in the Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
These connectors are set to IDE mode by default. In 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 “4.3.5 IDE Conguration” for details.
®
P5BV-C/4L
P5BV-C/4L SATA Connectors
SATA1 SATA3
SATA2 SATA4
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND
GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND
SATA_
RAID5
SATA_
RAID6
SATA_
RAID7
SATA_
RAID8
GND RSATA_TXP5 RSATA_TXN5 GND RSATA_RXP5 RSATA_RXN5 GND GND RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN6 GND RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_RXN6 GND
GND RSATA_TXP7 RSATA_TXN7 GND RSATA_RXP7 RSATA_RXN7 GND GND RSATA_TXP8 RSATA_TXN8 GND RSATA_RXP8 RSATA_RXN8 GND
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting Use
SATA1/SATA3 Master Boot disk
SATA2/SATA4 Slave Data disk
• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• When using the connectors in
IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard
disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA3 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.