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4. Please do not configure your eSATAII HDD as a RAID disk; otherwise, it may affect
the Hot Plug function that eSATAII HDD should have.
5. Please refer to page 29 to 31 for detailed information of RAID mode, non-RAID
mode and AHCI mode.
How to install eSATAII?
1. In order to enable the eSATAII port of the I/O shield, you need to connect the
orange SATAII connector (SATAII_6; see p.2 No.14) and the eSATAII connec-
tor (eSATAII_TOP; see p.2 No.1) with a SATA data cable first.
Connect the SATA data cable
to the orange SATAII
connector (SATAII_6)
2. Use the eSATAII device cable to connect eSATAII device and the eSATAII port
of the I/O shield according to the eSATAII connector that you connect the
SATA data cable.
Connect one end of the eSATAII
device cable to eSATAII device
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2 8 2 8
ASRock
SATAII_6
Connect the SATA
data cable to the
eSATAII connector
(eSATAII_TOP)
Connect the other end of the eSATAII
device cable to eSATAII port of the I/O
shield
A770CrossFire Motherboard
eSATAII_TOP