Once you have connected the external hard drive(s) a dialog box will appear which verifies
how many devices were added to the system (See Figure 14). There are two Serial ATA
channels, 0 and 1. One or two dialog boxes will appear verifying which drive was attached to
which channel (See Figures 15 and 16).
Figure 14: Device(s) Attached to Channel(s) 0 and/or 1
Figure 15: Example Serial ATA hard drive connected to channel 0
Figure 16: Example Serial ATA hard drive connected to channel 1
Removing External Hard Drive(s)
Caution
: To prevent loss of data, save your work and close associated applications
before removing the external hard drive (applications need to be closed since they may
keep temporary working files open on the external hard drive). Always unmount the volumes
(eject or drag the volumes to trash) associated with an external hard drive before removing it.
Eject or drag all of the volumes associated with the hard drive(s) before disconnecting or
removing them. When removing a hard drive you will see a
“
SATA Configuration Changed
”
window (See Figure 17). If this is the only hard drive you remove, you may select
“
OK
”
in the
dialog box. If you have an additional hard drive to remove, remove it and then select
“
OK
”
in
the dialog box.
