User manual LACIE SKWARIM

[. . . ] LaCie Skwarim User Manual Table of Contents page 1 Table of Contents 1. Unpacking Your LaCie SKWARIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Mac Users Mac OS 9. x ­ Install and use LaCie Silverlining Pro, which is included with your drive. Mac OS 10. x ­ Use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system. For instructions on installing and using Silverlining Pro, please refer to the Silverlining manual, located on your LaCie Storage Utilities CD, in PDF format. Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10. x CAUTION: Following these steps will erase anything that is on the hard drive. Therefore, if you have information that you want to pro tect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps. Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the Menu Bar, and open Go. In the Applications menu, open the Utilities folder, and then doubleclick Disc Utility from the Utilities folder. In the left side of the window will be a list of the available hard disk drives. You should see a volume that represents your internal hard drive, and one that reads LaCie. From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the number of par titions you want to divide the drive into by clicking on the pull down menu starting with Current (Mac OS 10. x gives you the option of dividing the drive into at most 8 partitions). You can customize the size of the partitions by using the slide bar be tween the partitions in the Volume Scheme: area. In the Volume Information section, create a name for each partition, choose the volume format (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard or UNIX File System) and the volume size. File System Formats, for a more detailed discussion on the differences between the two systems. Fig. 08 IMPORTANT NOTE: Apple recommends that unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System (UFS), you should use the Mac OS Extended format since it provides a more familiar experi ence to Macintosh users. LaCie Skwarim User Manual Using Your LaCie Skwarim page 14 7. In the Options section, click the Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers box if you plan on sharing the drive between the Mac OS 9. x and Mac OS 10. x. Once you have finalized the volume format, number of parti tions, size and options, click OK. Mac OS 10. x will automatically setup the disk with the parti tions and volume format you selected, and your new drive will be available for use. LaCie Skwarim User Manual Helpful Information page 15 4. Advice For Optimizing USB 2. 0 Connections The following technical information relates to your LaCie Drive and gives some practical advice: 4. 1. 1. What is USB 2. 0? The new USB 2. 0 standard provides higher bandwidth for high speed peripherals such as external hard drives, highspeed scanners and CDRW drives. USB 2. 0 delivers transfer rates up to 480Mbits/s, while conveniently maintaining backward compatibility with USB 1. 1 devices. USB 2. 0 can still be used to connect lowerspeed USB 1. 1 ports and devices like digital cameras, scanners, modems, keyboards, mice, joysticks and printers. In the USB 2. 0 system, existing USB periph erals do not have to be upgraded, and lowerspeed devices will not require additional performance, instead operating as USB 1. 1 devices. 4. 1. 2. USB Cables and Connectors Your LaCie drive is shipped with a USB 2. 0certified USB cable, to ensure maximum data transfer performance when connected to a USB 2. 0 port. [. . . ] By connecting yet another hub to a connector on the existing hub, you can then plug in a new set of peripherals and so on, up to a maximum of 127. You can use your USB 2. 0 devices with USB 1. 1 hubs, but the pe ripherals will be limited to USB 1. 1 performance levels. As USB 2. 0 is backwards compatible, you will be able to connect USB 1. 1 devices to USB 2. 0 hubs; however, the USB 1. 1 devices will still maintain their normal performance levels (i. e. In practice, users who desire enhanced USB 2. 0 throughput will need to connect their USB 2. 0 hardware on both ends of a 2. 0 hub to achieve the "highspeed" mode. [. . . ]