ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 manual SATA3 HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide

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2.15 SATA3 HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide

This motherboard supports Hot Plug feature for SATA3 HDD in RAID / AHCI mode. Please read below operation guide of Hot Plug feature carefully. Before you process the SATA3 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

Caution

The SATA 15-pin power connector (Black) connect to SATA3 HDD

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

1.Without SATA 15-pin power connector interface, the SATA3 Hot Plug cannot be processed.

2.Even some SATA3 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 SATA3 HDD Hot Plug.

*The SATA3 Hot Plug feature might not be supported by the chipset because of its limitation, the SATA3 Hot Plug support information of our motherboard is indicated in the product spec on our website: www.asrock.com

2.Make sure your SATA3 HDD can support Hot Plug function from your dealer or HDD user manual. The SATA3 HDD, which cannot support Hot Plug function, will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation.

3.Please make sure the SATA3 driver is installed into system properly. The latest SATA3 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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FM2A75 Pro4 specifications

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