Software Installation for PC

SATA Connection for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003

Some PC computers nowadays are equipped with external SATA ports for peripheral connectivity, or provide a SATA cable and bracket to route internal SATA port on motherboard to external port. Otherwise, to take advantage of high performance SATA connection, you need to add a third-party SATA II or SATA I host controller adapter with external SATA port the “L” shaped key type). When external SATA port is available, please follow steps below to use PHR-100SU enclosure:

1, When computer is powered off, attach PHR-100SU to the SATA port of the computer.

2, Power on PHR-100SU first, then turn on the computer.

3, After Windows boots up, it will load, the driver and recognize the enclosure automatically. If you don’t see a new(SATA) drive in My Computer, probably the SATA drive needs to be partitioned and formatted first.

Above described connection and power sequence is referred to as Hot Boot. There are total five power sequence modes, Hot Boot, Cold Boot, Hot Plug, Cold Plug, and Power Cycle, by which an external hard drive can possibly be used with a computer system. Please refer to the section “SATA Connection for MacOS X 10.2 and above” for definition.

It is important to note that different SATA host adapters handle the power sequence in different way. Some support all five power sequence modes, the other can only support Hot Boot. PHR-100SU supports all five power sequence modes. To find out what your SATA host adapter is capable of, please contact the manufacturer of SATA host adapter, or simply try all power sequence mode yourself.