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[. . . ] LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual Table of Contents page Table of Contents Foreword Precautions 1. Introduction 1. 1. WhatYourLaCieTwoBigCanDo 2. Your LaCie Two Big 2. 1. MinimumSystemRequirements 2. 2. PackageContents 2. 3. ViewsOfTheDrive 2. 3. 1. FrontView 2. 3. 2. FrontViewwithoutFrontPanel 2. 3. 3. RearView 2. 4. Cables&Connectors 2. 4. 1. SerialATAIIandeSATA 3. Setting Up Your LaCie Two Big 3. 1. SetuptheTwoBig 3. 2. StoragePolicies 3. 3. ChangingtheStoragePolicyConfiguration 3. 4. PartitioningtheLaCieTwoBigDiskDrives 3. 4. 1. PartitioningtheLaCieTwoBigDiskDrives--Windows 3. 4. 2. PartitioningtheLaCieTwoBigDiskDrives--Mac 4. [. . . ] 6. SpecifythesizeofthepartitionintheSizefield(fig. B LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual 8. Clickpartitiontoacknowledgethewarning(fig. DiskUtilitymountsthecreatedpartitionandrepresentsitwith anicononthedesktop. Theiconislabeledwiththepartition name. Setting Up Your LaCie Two Big page Fig. C LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual Maintaining Your LaCie Two Big page 4. Removing/Replacing A Drive IMpOrTANT INfO:AftercontinuoususeoftheLaCieTwoBig, drivesmaybehot. Usecautionwhenremoving drives. IntheeventthatanindividualharddiskfailsintheLaCieTwoBig, pleasecontactyourLaCieresellerorLaCieCustomer Support. Additional, spareharddisksmayalsobepurchased(soldseparately). Pleasereplaceadefectiveharddriveonly byanewdriveprovidedbyLaCie. Fordriveremovalandreplacementprocess, pleasefollowthestepsbelow. CAUTION:DrivewarrantywillbevoidifyoureplacethedefectivedrivebyadrivenotpurchasedfromLaCie. 1. Removethefrontpanelbygraspingthetopcorners, lifting slightlyandthenpullingforwardonthepanelremovaltab. 2. Drawoutthegrayextractionhandlebyinsertingyourfinger intotheringandpullinggently(fig. B LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual Maintaining Your LaCie Two Big page 4. 2. Install New Firmware (Upgrade) LaCiemayperiodicallyofferfirmwareupdatesfortheTwoBig. VisitLaCie'sWebsite, www. lacie. com, forthelatest firmwareupdate. Fortheprocedure, pleasecontacttheLaCietechnicalsupport. LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual LaCie Two Big LED Indicators page 5. LaCie Two Big Front Panel LED Indicators Bothdiskdrivesandthesystem-to-hostconnectionshaveLEDsthatreflectthedriveandsystemstates. Thefollowingtable showsthedifferentLEDstatesandtheirindications. Table A: lED Display lights lED Drive1 On (solid) Off Driveis rebuilding (blue) Driveis rebuilding (blue) Poweron (green) Driveisnotbeingaccessed Blinking Baddriveordisconnected fromhost Driveisnotbeingaccessed Baddriveordisconnected fromhost Powerofforcorruptfirmware N/A N/A Normalread/writeactivity flashing Normalread/writeactivity Drive2 System Drive LED 1 (left drive) Drive LED 2 (right drive) System LED TECHNICAl NOTE:TheeasiestwaytotellthedifferencebetweenablinkingLEDandaflashingLEDisthatflashing stopswhentheread/writeactivityisfinished, andblinkingdoesnotstop. Theblinkrateisslower, too, butthedifferenceinspeedismoredifficulttodetectvisually. LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual Tech Tips page 6. Available Storage Capacity Agigabyte(GB)means1, 000, 000, 000bytes. Inordertoutilizeaharddiskdrive, ithastobeformattedfirst. Formattingadiskconsistsofthefollowing:theoperatingsystemerasesallofthebookkeepinginformationonthe disk, teststhedisktomakesurethatallofthesectorsarereliable, marksbadsectors(i. e. , thosethatarescratched) andcreatesinternaladdresstablesthatitlaterusestolocateinformation. Onceformatted, theactualavailable storagecapacityvaries, dependingonoperatingenvironment, andisgenerallyabout5to10%lessthanthenon- formattedcapacity. TECHNICAl NOTE:StoragecapacityofanarraydependsontheRAIDlevel. ThecapacityofaRAIDarraycanbe foundbymultiplyingthecapacityofthedrivesinthearraybythenumberofnon-redundantdrives. LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual Tech Tips page 6. 2. File System Formats ­ Mac Users TheLaCieTwoBigcomespreformattedinHFS+(MacOS Extended). Thissectionwillhelpyoudecideifyouneedto reformatyourTwoBig. Mac OS 10. x Users: Youmaycustomizethedrivebyreformattingand/orpartitioningthedrivewithseparatefilesystemformats. For optimalperformanceinMacOSenvironments, format andpartitionthedriveasonelargeMacOSExtended volume. Mac OS Extended (HfS+) MacOSExtendedreferstothefilesystemusedbyMac OS8. 1andlater. HFS+representsanoptimizationof theolderHFSfilesystembyusingharddiskspacemore efficiently. WithHFS+, youarenolongerlimitedbyblock size. MS-DOS file System (fAT 32) ThisistheMicrosoftfilesystem, moretypicallyknown asFAT32. Thisisthefilesystemtouseifyouaregoing tobeusingyourLaCieHardDrivebetweenMacsand Windowsoperatingsystems. IMpOrTANT INfO:Ifyouwillbesharingthe harddrivebetweenMacandWindowsoperating environments, youwillwanttofollowtheseguidelines: MacOSXprefersthatallpartitionsbethesame format, thereforeonlythefirstFAT32partitionis guaranteedtomount. MacOS10. 1. x ·WorksreliablywithFAT32partitionslessthan 32GB MacOS10. 2. x ·WorksreliablywithFAT32partitionslessthan 128GB ·DoesnotmountFAT32partitionsgreaterthan 128GB MacOS10. 3. x ·MountsanyFAT32driveofanysize ·MountsNTFSvolumesasREAD-only TECHNICAl NOTE:Mac OS 10. 3. x Users -MacOSExtended(Journaled)UnderPanther, AppleintroducedjournalingtotheMacOSExtendedfilesystem, whichhelpsprotectthefilesystemsonMacOSvolumes. Whenjournaling isenabled, filesystemtransactionsaremaintainedandrecordedcontinuouslyinaseparatefile, calledajournal. In theeventofanunplannedshutdown, theOSusesthejournaltorestorethefilesystem. Journalingisalsobackward compatible, andallvolumeswithjournalingenabledcanbefullyusedbycomputersnotrunningMacOS10. 3. x. For moreinformation, pleasevisitApple'sWebsite. LaCie Two Big Hard Drive User Manual 6. 2. 2. File System Formats ­ Windows Users Tech Tips page 0 SincetheLaCieTwoBigcomespreformattedinHFS+, theMacOperatingsystem, youwillneedtoreformatyourdrivein FAT32orNTFS. Thefollowinginformationwillhopefullymakechoosingoneortheotheralittleeasier. fAT 32 FATisanacronymforFile Allocation Table, whichdatesbacktothebeginningsofDOSprogramming. Originally, FATwas only16bits, butafterthesecondreleaseofWindows95itwasupgradedto32bits, hencethenameFAT32. Intheory, FAT 32volumesizescanrangefromlessthan1MBallthewayto2TB. ItisthenativefilesystemofWindows98andWindows Me, andissupportedbyWindows2000andXP. WhenFAT32isusedwithWindows2000andXP, though, volumesizeis limitedto32GB(bytheWindowspartitionutility, i. e. DiskManager), andtheindividualfilesizeislimitedto4GB. [. . . ] ·ConnectanalternatedevicetotheHBA. ·RemoveallotherPCIperipheralstoruleoutinterference. ·MovetheHBAtoanalternatePCI-Xslot. VerifyHBABIOSrecognizesemptyLaCieTwoBig. [. . . ]

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