Asus Crosshair II Formula - Manual (Page 56)

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2. NVIDIA NVIDIA ® nForce 780a SLI Serial ATA connectors
(7-pin SATA1–4 [blue]; 7-pin SATA5–6 [black])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
and optical disk drives.
If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1,
RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration through the onboard NVIDIA through the onboard NVIDIA ®
nForce 780a SLI controller.
• SATA1–4 connectors are set to �IDE�� by default. If you intend to create SATA1–4 connectors are set to �IDE�� by default. If you intend to create If you intend to create
a Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the SATA Operation
Mode item to �RAID�� in the BIOS. See section 4.5.6 MCP Storage Config
for details.
• SATA 5–6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure
to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before
connecting devices to SATA 5–6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not
work.
• For RAID 5, use at least three hard disk drives. For RAID 0+1, use at least
four hard disk drives. Use two to four Serial ATA hard disk drives for each
RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 NVIDIA ® RAID configurations or
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
• You must install the Windows ® XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID
5/RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows ® XP or later version.
CROSSHAIR II FORMULA
®
RESET
SATA1
GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND RSATA_TXN1 RSATA_TXP1 GND
SATA2
GND RSATA_RXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND RSATA_TXN2 RSATA_TXP2 GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_RXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND RSATA_TXN3 RSATA_TXP3 GND
SATA6
GND RSATA_RXN6 RSATA_TXP6 GND RSATA_TXN6 RSATA_TXP6 GND
SATA5
GND RSATA_RXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GND RSATA_TXN5 RSATA_TXP5 GND
SATA4
GND RSATA_RXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND RSATA_TXN4 RSATA_TXP4 GND
CROSSHAIR II FORMULA SATA connectors
Connect the right-angle side
of SATA signal cable to SATA
device. Or you may connect the
right-angle side of SATA cable to
the onboard SATA port to avoid
mechanical conflict with huge
graphics cards.
right angle side