Owner manual

2-28 Chapter 2: Hardware information
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
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Color Setting Use
SATA1/2/5/6 Red Master Boot disk
SATA3/4 Black Slave Data Disk
• You must install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 or later version before
using Serial ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10) is available only if you are using Windows
®
XP or later version.
• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2/5/6 connector. Refer to the table
below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.