User manual ASROCK N7AD-SLI

[. . . ] N7AD-SLI User Manual Version 1. 0 Published September 2008 Copyright©2008 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. 1 Copyright Notice: No part of this manual may be reproduced, transcribed, transmitted, or translated in any language, in any form or by any means, except duplication of documentation by the purchaser for backup purpose, without written consent of ASRock Inc. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Disclaimer: Specifications and information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice, and should not be constructed as a commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] However, eSATAII provides the data transfer rate up to 3000Mb/s, which is much higher than USB 2. 0 and IEEE 1394, and still keeps the convenience of Hot Plug feature. Therefore, on the basis of the advantageous transfer speed and the facilitating mobile capability, in the near future, eSATAII will replace USB 2. 0 and IEEE 1394 to be a trend for external interface. NOTE: 1. If you set "SATA Operation Mode" option in BIOS setup to AHCI or RAID mode, Hot Plug function is supported with eSATAII devices. Therefore, you can insert or remove your eSATAII devices to the eSATAII ports while the system is power-on and in working condition. If you set "SATA Operation Mode" option in BIOS setup to IDE mode, Hot Plug function is not supported with eSATAII devices. If you still want to use eSATAII function in IDE mode, please insert or remove your eSATAII devices to the eSATAII ports only when the system is power-off. If you want to use the eSATAII HDD as an OS disk, please set "SATA Operation Mode" option in BIOS setup to IDE mode. If you want to use the eSATAII HDD as a removable data disk, please set "SATA Operation Mode" option in BIOS setup to RAID mode. If you want to add the eSATAII HDD as a RAID disk, please set "SATA Operation Mode" option in BIOS setup to RAID mode. Please do not configure your eSATAII HDD as a RAID disk; otherwise, it may affect the Hot Plug function that eSATAII HDD should have. Please refer to page 42 to 46 for detailed information of RAID mode, IDE mode and AHCI mode. 34 How to install eSATAII? SATAII_6 (Port 5) eSATAII_TOP 1. In order to enable the eSATAII port of the I/O shield, you need to connect the orange SATAII connector (SATAII_6 (Port 5); see p. 11 No. 12) and the eSATAII connector (eSATAII_TOP; see p. 11 No. 38) with a SATA data cable first. Connect the SATA data cable to the orange SATAII connector (SATAII_6 (Port 5)) Connect the SATA data cable to the eSATAII connector (eSATAII_TOP) 2. Use the eSATAII device cable to connect eSATAII device and the eSATAII port of the I/O shield according to the eSATAII connector that you connect the SATA data cable. Connect one end of the eSATAII device cable to eSATAII device Connect the other end of the eSATAII device cable to eSATAII port of the I/O shield 35 Comparison between eSATAII and other devices IEEE 1394 USB 2. 0 SATA eSATAII/SATAII 400Mb/s 480Mb/s 1. 5Gb/s (1500Mb/s) 3. 0Gb/s (3000Mb/s) 36 SAT 2. 13 SATAII Hard Disk Setup Guide Before installing SATAII hard disk to your computer, please carefully read below SATAII hard disk setup guide. Some default setting of SATAII hard disks may not be at SATAII mode, which operate with the best performance. In order to enable SATAII function, please follow the below instruction with different vendors to correctly adjust your SATAII hard disk to SATAII mode in advance; otherwise, your SATAII hard disk may fail to run at SATAII mode. Western Digital 7 8 5 6 3 4 1 2 If pin 5 and pin 6 are shorted, SATA 1. 5Gb/s will be enabled. On the other hand, if you want to enable SATAII 3. 0Gb/s, please remove the jumpers from pin 5 and pin 6. SAMSUNG 7 8 5 6 3 4 1 2 If pin 3 and pin 4 are shorted, SATA 1. 5Gb/s will be enabled. On the other hand, if you want to enable SATAII 3. 0Gb/s, please remove the jumpers from pin 3 and pin 4. HITACHI Please use the Feature Tool, a DOS-bootable tool, for changing various ATA features. Please visit HITACHI's website for details: http://www. hitachigst. com/hdd/support/download. htm The above examples are just for your reference. For different SATAII hard disk products of different vendors, the jumper pin setting methods may not be the same. Please visit the vendors' website for the updates. 37 AT (SAT AT (SAT 2 . 1 4 Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts NVIDIA® nForce 740i SLI chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) hard disks and RAID functions. [. . . ] Currently, the option [Auto] is set to Aircraft. Boot From Onboard LAN Use this item to enable or disable the Boot From Onboard LAN feature. Boot Up Num-Lock If this item is set to [On], it will automatically activate the Numeric Lock function after boot-up. 61 3 . 7 Security Screen In this section, you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system. [. . . ]