TS100-E4/PI2 Pedestal Server User Manual

ASUS TS100-E4/PI2 3-13
3. Serial ATA connectors (7-pin SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, SATA4)
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
and RAID 1 conguration using the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Technology or
the LSI MegaRAID
®
utility embedded in the Intel
®
ICH7R Southbridge.
Serial ATA hard disk drive connection
Connector Setting Use
SATA1/SATA2 Master Boot disk
SATA3/SATA4 Slave Data disk
These connectors are set 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
Congure SATA as item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section “4.3.4 IDE
Conguration” for details.
Important notes on Serial ATA
• Use only two Serial ATA RAID connectors for each RAID 0 or RAID 1
set.
• When using the connectors in
IDE mode, connect the primary (boot)
hard disk drive to the SATA1 or SATA2 connector. Refer to the table
below for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
P5M2-M/C_TS100-E4
®
P5M2-M/C_TS100-E4 SATA Connectors
SATA1
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXP1 RSATA_RXN1 GND
SATA2
GND RSATA_TXP2 RSATA_TXN2 GND RSATA_RXP2 RSATA_RXN2 GND
SATA3
GND RSATA_TXP3 RSATA_TXN3 GND RSATA_RXP3 RSATA_RXN3 GND
SATA4
GND RSATA_TXP4 RSATA_TXN4 GND RSATA_RXP4 RSATA_RXN4 GND