Operation Guide - ASROCK Fatal1ty X79 Champion series User Manual

2.21 SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDD Hot Plug and Operation Guide
This motherboard supports Hot Plug for SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs in RAID /
AHCI mode. Please read the operation guide of Hot Plug below carefully. Before
you process the SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDD Hot Plug, please check the cable
accessories from the motherboard gift box pack below.
A. 7-pin SATA data cable
B. SATA power cable with SATA 15-pin power connector interface
A. SATA data cable (Red)
The SATA 15-pin power connector
SATA 7-pin
(Black) should be connected to
connector
your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDD
Caution
1. Without the SATA 15-pin power connector interface, the SATA / SATA2 / SATA3
Hot Plug cannot be processed.
2. Even though some SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs provide both SATA 15-pin
power connectors and IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connectors, IDE 1x4-pin
conventional power connector interface is definitely unable to support Hot Plug
and will cause the HDD damage and data loss.
Points of attention, before you process Hot Plug:
1. The operation procedure below is designed only for our motherboard, which
supports SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDD Hot Plug.
* The SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 Hot Plug feature might not be supported by the
chipset because of its limitation. The SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 Hot Plug support
information of our motherboards is indicated in the product spec on our website:
www.asrock.com
2. Make sure your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDD can support Hot Plug from your
dealer or HDD user manual. SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs which do not support
Hot Plug will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation.
3. Please make sure the SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 driver is installed into system
properly. The latest SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 driver is available on our support
website: www.asrock.com
4. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable from our motherboard
package.
5. Please follow the instructions below step by step to reduce the risk of HDD crash
or data loss.
B. SATA power cable
The 1x4-pin conventional power
connector (White) should be
connected to a power supply
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