Serial Ata Hard Disk Drive Connection - Asus P5E WS PROFESSIONAL User Manual

3. ICH9R Serial ATA connectors [blue] (7-pin SATA1-6)
These connectors are for the Serial ATA signal cables for Serial ATA hard disk
drives and optical disk drives.
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P5E WS PRO
P5E WS Professional
SATA connectors
• When using the connectors in Standard IDE mode, connect the primary
(boot) hard disk drive to the SATA1/2 connector. Refer to the table below
for the recommended SATA hard disk drive connections.
• These connectors are set to Standard IDE mode by default. In Standard
IDE mode, you can connect Serial ATA boot/data hard 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 SATA Configuration for details.
• Before creating a RAID set, refer to 5.4.2 Intel RAID Configurations or
the manual bundled in the motherboard support DVD.

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection

Connector
SATA 1/2
SATA 3/4
SATA 5/6
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 conflict with huge
graphics cards.
ASUS P5E WS Professional
P5B SATA Connectors
Color
Blue
Blue
Blue
SATA1
SATA2
SATA3
SATA3
SATA6
Setting
Master
Slave
Master
right angle side
SATA2
SATA1
SATA4
SATA4
SATA5
Use
Boot disk
Boot/Data disk
Boot disk
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