ASRock H61M-VS3 manual Sata / SATA2 HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide

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2.12SATA / SATA2 HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation

Guide

This motherboard supports Hot Plug feature for SATA / SATA2 HDD in AHCI mode. Please read below operation guide of Hot Plug feature carefully. Before you process the SATA / SATA2 HDD Hot Plug, please check below cable accessories from the motherboard gift box pack.

A. 7-pin SATA data cable

B. SATA power cable with SATA 15-pin power connector interface

A. SATA data cable (Red)			B. SATA power cable

SATA 7-pin connector

The SATA 15-pin power connector (Black) connect to SATA / SATA2 HDD

1x4-pin conventional power connector (White) connect to power supply

Caution

1.Without SATA 15-pin power connector interface, the SATA / SATA2 Hot Plug cannot be processed.

2.Even some SATA / SATA2 HDDs provide both SATA 15-pin power connector and IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interfaces, the IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interface is definitely not able to support Hot Plug and will cause the HDD damage and data loss.

Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug:

1.Below operation procedure is designed only for our motherboard, which supports SATA / SATA2 HDD Hot Plug.

*The SATA / SATA2 Hot Plug feature might not be supported by the chipset because of its limitation, the SATA / SATA2 Hot Plug support information of our motherboard is indicated in the product spec on our website: www.asrock.com

2.Make sure your SATA / SATA2 HDD can support Hot Plug function from your dealer or HDD user manual. The SATA / SATA2 HDD, which cannot support Hot Plug function, will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation.

3.Please make sure the SATA / SATA2 driver is installed into system properly. The latest SATA / SATA2 driver is available on our support website: www.asrock.com

4.Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which are from our motherboard package.

5.Please follow below instructions step by step to reduce the risk of HDD crash or data loss.

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