Asus A8N32-SLI - Manual (Page 51)

A S U S A 8 N 3 2 - S L I D e l u x e A S U S A 8 N 3 2 - S L I D e l u x e A S U S A 8 N 3 2 - S L I D e l u x e A S U S A 8 N 3 2 - S L I D e l u x e A S U S A 8 N 3 2 - S L I D e l u x e 2 - 2 5 2 - 2 5 2 - 2 5 2 - 2 5 2 - 2 5
A8N32-SLI
®
A8N32-SLI IDE connectors
NOTE: Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN 1.
PRI_IDE
PIN 1
SEC_IDE
3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3 . n V I D I A n V I D I A n V I D I A n V I D I A n V I D I A ® ® ® ® ® n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s n F o r c e ™ 4 S L I S o u t h b r i d g e S e r i a l A T A c o n n e c t o r s
( b l a c k 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( b l a c k 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( b l a c k 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( b l a c k 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 ) ( b l a c k 7 - p i n S A T A 1 , S A T A 2 , S A T A 3 , S A T A 4 )
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA
3 Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3 Gb/s is
backward compatible with Serial ATA I specification.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD configuration with the Primary and
Secondary IDE drives through the onboard nVIDIA
® nForce™ 4 SLI RAID
controller.
• The RAID function of these connectors is set to [Disabled] by
default. If you intend to create a Serial ATA RAID set using these
connectors, enable the n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n
n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n n V i d i a R A I D F u n c t i o n item in the BIOS.
See section “4.3.6 IDE Configuration” for details.
• These connectors support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and
JBOD configurations.
A8N32-SLI
®
A8N32-SLI SATA connectors
SATA1 SATA2
GND RSA
TA_TXP4
RSA
TA_TXN4
GND RSA
TA_RXP4
RSA
TA_RXN4
GND GND RSA
TA_TXP3
RSA
TA_TXN3
GND RSA
TA_RXP3
RSA
TA_RXN3
GND
GND RSA
TA_TXP2
RSA
TA_TXN2
GND RSA
TA_RXP2
RSA
TA_RXN2
GND GND RSA
TA_TXP1
RSA
TA_TXN1
GND RSA
TA_RXP1
RSA
TA_RXN1
GND
SATA3 SATA4