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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.

nVIDIAnVIDIA

nVIDIA

®®

nForce™ 4 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors nForce™ 4 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors

nForce™ 4 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors

(black 7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)(black 7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

(black 7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)

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

nVidia RAID FunctionnVidia RAID Function

nVidia RAID Function 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

SATA1SATA2

GND

RSATA_TXP4

RSATA_TXN4

GND

RSATA_RXP4

RSATA_RXN4

GND

RSATA_TXP3

RSATA_TXN3

GND

RSATA_RXP3

RSATA_RXN3

GND

RSATA_TXP2

RSATA_TXN2

GND

RSATA_RXP2

RSATA_RXN2

GND

RSATA_TXP1

RSATA_TXN1

GND

RSATA_RXP1

RSATA_RXN1

GND

SATA3 SATA4