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Chapter 2
2. AMD
®
SB850 Serial ATA Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA 1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disc drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
or RAID 10 conguration through the onboard AMD
®
SB850 controller.
• These connectors are set to
IDE
mode by default. In
IDE
mode, you can connect
Serial ATA boot/data hard disk drives to these connectors. If you intend to create a
Serial ATA RAID set using these connectors, set the
SATA Port1-Port4
item or
SATA
Port5-Port6
item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section
3.4.2 Storage Conguration
for
details.
• You must install Windows
®
XP Service Pack 2 or later version before using Serial
ATA hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature is available only if you are using
Windows
®
XP SP2 or later version.
• When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the
SATA Port1-Port4
in the BIOS to [AHCI]. See
section
3.4.2 Storage Conguration
for details.