Specifications

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Chapter 2: Hardware information
3. NVIDIA
®
nForce
®
590 SLI Southbridge Serial ATA connectors (7-pin
SATA1 [red], SATA2 [red], SATA3 [red], SATA4 [red], SATA5 [red], SATA6
[red])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA 3.0
Gb/s hard disk and optical disk drives. The Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s is backward
compatible with Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s specication.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, or JBOD conguration through the onboard NVIDIA
®
MediaShield™ 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 RAID
Enabled item in the SATA Conguration sub-menu in the BIOS. See section
“4.4.7 Onboard Device Conguration” for details.
M2N32-SLI DELUXE
M2N32-SLI DELUXE
IDE connector
PRI_IDE
NOTE:Orient the red markings
(usually zigzag) on the IDE
ribbon cable to PIN1.
PIN1
M2N32-SLI DELUXE
M2N32-SLI DELUXE
SATA connectors
SATA1
GND SATA_RXP1 SATA_RXN1 GND SATA_TXN1 SATA_TXP1 GND GND SATA_RXP2 SATA_RXN2 GND SATA_TXN2 SATA_TXP2 GND
GND SATA_RXP3 SATA_RXN3 GND SATA_TXN3 SATA_TXP3 GND GND SATA_RXP4 SATA_RXN4 GND SATA_TXN4 SATA_TXP4 GND
GND SATA_RXP5 SATA_RXN5 GND SATA_TXN5 SATA_TXP5 GND GND SATA_RXP6 SATA_RXN6 GND SATA_TXN6 SATA_TXP6 GND
SATA2
SATA3 SATA4
SATA5 SATA6