Serial Ata (Sata) / Serial Ataii (Sataii) Hard Disks Installation; Hot Plug Function For Sata / Sataii Hdds - ASROCK H61 Pro User Manual

2.10 Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks
Installation
This motherboard adopts Intel
ATAII (SATAII) hard disks. You may install SATA / SATAII hard disks on this mother-
board for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA /
SATAII hard disks.
STEP 1: Install the SATA / SATAII hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis.
STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA / SATAII hard disk.
STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATAII con-
nector.
STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA / SATAII hard
disk.

2.11 Hot Plug Function for SATA / SATAII HDDs

This motherboard supports Hot Plug function for SATA / SATAII in AHCI mode.
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Intel H61 chipset provides hardware support for Advanced Host controller Interface
(AHCI), a new programming interface for SATA host controllers developed thru a
joint industry effort.
NOTE
What is Hot Plug Function?
If the SATA / SATAII HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called "Hot
Plug" for the action to insert and remove the SATA / SATAII HDDs while the
system is still power-on and in working condition.
However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been
installed into the SATA / SATAII HDD.
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H61 chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial
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