English Manual - Deltaco USB SATA/PATA adapter
SATA-61
2006-12-28
Sida 1(8)
Introduction
Thank you for buying this Deltaco adapter giving you the means of connecting most kind of
hard drives and CD/DVD readers to your PC’s USB port. The adapter is designed for users
that need to handle many units and have no need for a more permanent installation.
This user guide describes how to connect and configure the adapter.
The package contains:
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1 USB SATA/PATA adapter
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1 power adapter
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1 PATA to SATA power converter cable
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1 SATA connection cable
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1 USB2.0 Y-cable
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1 manual (multilingual)
Electrostatic discharges
An electrostatic discharge from a finger or wire may seriously damage the disk drive,
components or other sensitive parts. This type of discharges can shorten the lifespan of the
equipment.
Connect Disk drives
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3.5” PATA (IDE) drives, and CD/DVD drives, are connected directly to the adapter
and the power adapter.
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2.5” PATA drives are connected to the adapter. The Y-USB cable might be needed to
connect 2 separate USB ports in the PC or a powered USB-hub, as each port only can
provide 500mA. The disk may need more.
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SATA drives are connected with the red SATA cable and by the SATA / PATA power
cable to the power adapter.
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No drivers are needed for Win XP and Vista.
For other operating systems, please check for information and drivers at
w w w.deltaco.eu
Configure the hard drive
If the installed hard drive is new and not found by Windows XP, it first
has to be initiated,
partitioned and formatted in Windows control panel
Start
Control panel
, open
Ad ministration tools
, select
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, and proceed
to
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.
Right click the unit to proceed with initiate,
create partition and format according to the
instructions from the operating system.
NTFS- formatting is recommended for Windows XP.
Please observe that externally connected FAT32 hard drives in Windows XP must be FAT32
formatted by Windows XP. Disks formatted in FAT32 by other operating systems might not
work.
When the steps above are ready, the hard drive will be found in the Windows explorer.
