User Guide

ASUS RS120-E5/S 4-9
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
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 and
RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID10 conguration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Manager, or RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 conguration using the LSI Logic
Embedded SATA RAID utility 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 5.3.4 for details.
When using the connectors in IDE mode, connect the primary (boot) hard
disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table below for the
recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting
SATA1/SATA2 Master
SATA3/SATA4 Slave
P5BV-R
®
P5BV-R SATA connectors
SATA1
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND
SATA2
GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_RXP2 GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 GND
SATA4
GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_RXP4 GND