User Guide

ASUS P5VD1-X Motherboard 2-23
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables which are for Serial
ATA hard disk drives.
If you installed Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0 or RAID
1 configuration through the onboard VIA
®
VT8237R RAID controller. Please
refer to Chapter 5 for information on creating a RAID configuration.
Important notes on Serial ATA
• The Serial ATA RAID feature (RAID 0, RAID 1) is available only if you are
using Windows
®
2000/XP.
• Install the Windows
®
2000 Service Pack 4 or the Windows
®
XP Service
Pack1 or later version before using Serial ATA.
• VIA 8237/8237R Southbridge chipsets do not provide forwards compatibility
with SATA-II hard disk drives at 300MB/s. The HDDs might not be detected
at POST. To install a SATA-II hard drive, users need to lock the drive at
150MB/s data transfer rate by hard drive jumper setting. Refer to HDDs
manufacturesʼ website for more information.
P5VD1-X
®
P5VD1-X SATA connectors
SATA2SATA1
GND
RSATA_TXP2
RSATA_TXN2
GND
RSATA_RXP2
RSATA_RXN2
GND
GND
RSATA_TXP1
RSATA_TXN1
GND
RSATA_RXP1
RSATA_RXN1
GND
These connectors are set to Standard IDE configuration 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 Configure SATA As item in the BIOS to RAID. See section
“4.3.6 IDE Configuration” for details.