Chapter 2 Hardware Installation; Quick Installation - Acard AEC-6890M User Manual

AEC-6890M Manual

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

You can install AEC-6890M and hard drives successfully to your Mac machine ac-
cording to subsection 2.1. Before installing the operating system, if the hard drives
connected to AEC-6890M contain important data, you had better back up.
In addition, before using the hard dirves, you should examine and initialize them in
Normal mode with the Disk Utility no matter what RAID mode you are going to set.
Thus, RAID can work normally.

2.1 Quick Installation

1. Open the Mac machine's or Power Mac's case (refer to Mac manual).
2. Choose an empty PCI slot to insert AEC-6890M.
3. Install hard drives into the Mac machine or Power Mac.
4. Connect AEC-6890M and the hard drives with serial ATA cables.
5. Close the Mac machine's or Power Mac's case.
The picture of AEC-6890M is shown on the next page.
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