Manual
2-26 Chapter 2: Hardware information
3. ICH10R Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1-6 [red])
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 5, RAID 10 conguration with the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology
through the onboard Intel
®
ICH10R RAID controller.
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 conict with huge
graphics cards.
right angle side
•
These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
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
Congure SATA as
item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See
section
3.3.6 Storage Conguration
for details.
• Be for e cr eat ing a R A ID s et, re fe r t o s ect ion
4. 4.3 I nte l R AID
congurations
or the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.
•
You must install the Windows
®
XP Service Pack 1 before using Serial ATA
hard disk drives. The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10) is
available only if you are using Windows
®
XP or later version.
•
When using hot-plug and NCQ, set the
Congure SATA as
in the BIOS to
[AHCI]. See section
3.3.6 Storage Conguration
for details.