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Hardware Installation
Serial ATA Connectors
• SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
• RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD
• NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA
and Parallel ATA
Connecting Serial ATA Cables
Connect one end of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial ATA connec-
tor and the other end to your Serial ATA device.
BIOS Setting
Configure Serial ATA in the Integrated Peripherals submenu
(“OnChip IDE Device” section) of the BIOS. Refer to chapter 3 for
more information.
Configuring RAID
The system board allows configuring RAID on Serial ATA drives.
Refer to chapter 6 for steps in configuring RAID.
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Four Serial ATA ports supported by the nForce4 chip
SATA 2
(J13)
SATA 1
(J11)
SATA 3
(J2)
SATA 4
(J10)
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7
GND
TXP
TXN
GND
RXN
RXP
GND
1
7
1
7
GND
TXP
TXN
GND
RXN
RXP
GND
1
7