ASROCK Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 Series User Manual page 53

How to Hot Plug a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD:
Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug:
Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Plug, improper
procedure will cause the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD damage and data loss.
Please connect SATA power cable 1x4-pin end
Step 1
(White) to the power supply 1x4-pin cable.
SATA power cable 1x4-pin
power connector (White)
Connect SATA 15-pin power cable connector
Step 3
(Black) end to SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD.
How to Hot Unplug a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD:
Points of attention, before you process the Hot Unplug:
Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Unplug, improper
procedure will cause the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD damage and data loss.
Step 1
Unplug SATA data cable from SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD side.
Step 2
Unplug SATA 15-pin power cable connector (Black) from SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD side.
Connect SATA data cable to
Step 2
the motherboard's SATAII /
SATA3 connector.
Connect SATA data cable to
Step 4
the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDD.
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