Instruction manual

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Hardware Setup
Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID Connectors controlled by
VT8237: SATA1 & SATA2
The Southbridge of this mainboard is VIA VT8237 which supports two
serial connectors SATA1& SATA2.
SATA1 & SATA2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each
supports 1
st
generation serial ATA data rates of 150 MB/s. Both connectors are
fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector
can connect to 1 hard disk device. Please refer to Serial ATA/Serial ATA Raid
manual for detail software installation procedure.
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SATA2
SATA1