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Chapter 2
2.8.3 Internal connectors
1. AMD ® SB850 Serial ATA Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1~6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
or RAID 10 configuration through the onboard AMD ® SB850 controller.
• 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 type of the SATA connectors to
[RAID] in the BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.
• You must install Windows ® XP Service Pack 3 or later version before using Serial
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows ® XP SP3 or later version.
• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the type of the SATA connectors to [AHCI] in the
BIOS. See section 3.4.2 SATA Configuration for details.
2. LPT connector (26-1 pin LPT)
The LPT (Line Printing Terminal) connector supports devices such as a printer. LPT is
standardized as IEEE 1284, which is the parallel port interface on IBM PC-compatible
computers.
GN
D
RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GN
D
GN
D
SATA6G_3
GN
D
RSATA_RXN
5
RSATA_RXP
5
RSATA_TXN
5
RSATA_TXP
5
GN
D
GN
D
SATA6G_5
SATA6G_6
GN
D
RSATA_TXP6 RSATA_TXN6
GN
D
RSATA_RXP6 RSATA_RXN6
GN
D
GN
D
RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GN
D
GN
D
SATA6G_1
SATA6G_4
GN
D
RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN
4
GN
D
RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4
GN
D
SATA6G_2
GN
D
RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2
GN
D
RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2
GN
D
M5A88-M
M5A88-M Intel ® SATA 6.0Gb/s connectors
M5A88-M
M5A88-M LPT connector
LPT
PIN 1
SLCT
PE
BUSY
ACK#
PD7
PD6
PD5
PD4
PD3
PD2
PD1
PD0
STB#
GND
GND
GND
GND
GND
GND
GND
GND
SLIN#
INIT#
ERR#
AFD