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Although the Easy SATA frame slides in and out of the bay easily, you may have
to use some pressure to force the frame rails to snap into the latched position.
Note in Figure 4-52 that the spring clips are still in the unlatched position, tight
against the side of the Easy SATA frame rather than projecting out into the
thumb holes. To get the frame to seat and latch, we had to withdraw it an inch
or two and then slide it quickly into place. Make sure these spring clips latch,
or the first time you attempt to remove a hard drive from the frame the whole
frame will slide out of the case.
Locate the two SATA data cables in the lower chamber at the rear of the Easy
SATA and feed them up through the hole in the sliding door of the interior
bulkhead, as shown in Figure 4-53. (The thumbscrew can be loosened if you
need to slide that door aside temporarily to route cables.)
Figure 4-52.
Press the Easy SATA frame into the drive bay until the
spring clips snap into place
Figure 4-53.
Route the two SATA data cables from the Easy SATA
through the bulkhead and into the upper chamber
The black captive SATA data cable from the Easy SATA unit feeds the eSATA
port on the front of the unit. Because that port may be used to connect an
external eSATA device with a long cable, we want to connect the black cap-
tive cable to our one remaining motherboard eSATA port, as shown in Figure
4-54. (Yes, it's bass-ackwards that we've now connected two black SATA cables
to our two red motherboard SATA ports and we're about to connect red SATA
cables to our black motherboard SATA ports. Oh, well.)
The standard SATA data cable from the Easy SATA unit feeds the removable
drive bay, which in terms of required signal strength is the same as any internal
SATA device. That means we can connect it to any of the four standard SATA
ports on the motherboard. We reserved SATA 0 and SATA 1 ports for our hard
drive and optical drive, so we decided to connect the Easy SATA data cable to
the next available SATA port, SATA 2.
Match the L-shaped keys on the cable connector and motherboard connector,
and then press the cable connector into place, as shown in Figure 4-55. Make
sure the cable connector seats fully, and that the cables you connected previ-
ously are still seated.
