Cable Installation
8.
If the Serial ATA hard drive or peripheral uses a newer 15-pin power receptacle and your
system provides 15-pin power feeds: Attach the 15-pin power feed directly to the drive
’
s
15-pin power receptacle.
9.
If the Serial ATA hard drive or peripheral uses a newer 15-pin power receptacle and your
system does not provide 15-pin power feeds: Attach the 15-pin end of the 4- to 15-pin
power adapter provided by your hard drive or peripheral vendor to the drive
’
s 15-pin
power receptacle, and the 4-pin end to an available system power connector.
10. If the hard drive or peripheral provides a legacy 4-pin power connector and your system
provides legacy 4-pin power feeds: Connect an available 4-pin system power connector
directly to the 4-pin power receptacle on the drive. Note: If your hard drive or peripheral
provides both 4-pin and 15-pin power connectors, please do not connect both 4-pin and
15-pin power cables at the same time as this may result in damage to your equipment.
11. Attach one end of the Serial ATA data cable to the Serial ATA hard drive or peripheral,
and the other end to an open connector on the SeriTek/1V4. Note: If the Serial ATA
cable provided has an angled connector on one end, connect this end to the hard disk or
peripheral. This will help to insure the drive and cables will fit properly within the
Macintosh chassis.
12. Repeat steps 8 through 11 to install additional hard drives or peripherals.
13. Caution: The Serial ATA data cable has keyed L-shaped 7-pin connectors at each end.
Be sure to connect the cable using the proper orientation to the SeriTek/1V4 host adapter
and the hard drive or peripheral interfaces. If you are having difficulty connecting the
cable, try reversing the orientation of the connector. It should easily snap into place.
Please do not force the cable connector onto the host adapter and hard drive or
peripheral interface.
14. Close your Macintosh computer case and re-attach the AC power cord.
Ready for Use
Your SeriTek/1V4 host adapter and hard drives or peripherals are now installed. The
SeriTek/1V4 host adapter features fully self-contained Macintosh booting functionality and will
be recognized by your Macintosh computer when you power it on.
III. Formatting Hard Drives
Introduction
This section describes how to format your Serial ATA hard drive(s) using Apple
’
s
Drive Setup
utility (OS 9.XX) or Apple
’
s
Disk Utility
(OS X). If you decide to use a third party drive setup
utility, please refer to the documentation provided with the utility.
Formatting Serial ATA Hard Drives with Macintosh OS 9.XX
Caution:
Please make sure your data is backed up before attempting to format or change the
partition layout of your hard drives.
1.
Turn on your Power Macintosh computer.
2.
Open Apple
’
s
Drive Setup
.
To find and open this application:
a) Hold down the Command key and press the
“
F
”
key simultaneously.
b) Type in
“
Drive Setup
”
in the field with the blinking cursor
c)
Press Return key (See Figure 1).
