User manual LACIE TWO BIG ESATA & USB

[. . . ] LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual Table of Contents page Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Fast (RAID 0) 4 4 6 7 7 8 9 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 18 21 23 23 23 24 25 25 26 26 27 28 30 30 32 32 LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual Table of Contents page 7. 2. Warranty 33 34 34 35 35 36 37 38 39 LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual Forward page Copyrights Copyright © 2006 LaCie. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of LaCie. [. . . ] Please replace a defective hard drive only by a new drive provided by LaCie. For drive removal and replacement process, please follow the steps below. ImpOrTANT INfO: After continuous use of the LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB, drives may be hot. Use caution when removing. CAUTION: Drive warranty will be void if you replace the defective drive with a drive not provided by LaCie. 1. Remove the front panel by grasping the top corners, lifting slightly and then pulling forward on the panel removal tab. Draw out the gray extraction handle by inserting your finger into the ring and pulling gently (Fig. Install New Firmware (Upgrade) LaCie may periodically offer firmware updates for the Two Big. Visit LaCie's Web site, www. lacie. com, for the latest firmware update. For the procedure, please contact the LaCie technical support. LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual LaCie Two Big Front Panel Indicators page 5. LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB Front Panel Both disk drives and the system-to-host connections have LEDs that reflect the drive and system states (Fig. The following table shows the different LED states and their indications. Table A: LED Display Lights LED Drive 1 Drive 2 System On (Solid) Drive is rebuilding (blue) Drive is rebuilding (blue) Power on (green) Off Drive is not being accessed Drive is not being accessed Power off or corrupt firmware Blinking Bad drive or disconnected from host Bad drive or disconnected from host N/A Flashing Normal read/write activity Normal read/write activity N/A Drive LED 1 (left drive) Drive LED 1 (right drive) System LED Fig. 5. A. TeChNICAl NOTe: The easiest way to tell the difference between a blinking LED and a flashing LED is that flashing stops when the read/write activity is finished, and blinking does not stop. The blink rate is slower, too, but the difference in speed is more difficult to detect visually. LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual Tech Tips page 6. Available Storage Capacity A gigabyte (GB) means 1, 000, 000, 000 bytes. Formatting a disk consists of the following: the operating system erases all of the bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure that all of the sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (i. e. , those that are scratched) and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies, depending on operating environment, and is generally about 5 to 10% less than the nonformatted capacity. TeChNICAl NOTe: Storage capacity of an array depends on the RAID level. The capacity of a RAID array can be found by multiplying the capacity of the drives in the array by the number of non-redundant drives. LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB User Manual Tech Tips page 6. 2. Mac Users The LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB comes preformatted in HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). This section will help you decide if you need to reformat your Two Big. Mac OS 10. x Users: You may customize the drive by reformatting and/or partitioning the drive with separate file system formats. [. . . ] · Disconnect the USB cable. The LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB is not recognized when USB is plugged-in. Verify the System LED status to confirm power. Connect to a different USB port. Operating system does not recognize LaCie virtual drives. Verify HBA BIOS recognizes empty LaCie Two Big eSATA & USB. Before reconfiguring the mode of operation, use the operating system's Disk Manager to delete partitions on the volume. For Windows, the Device Manager should show the SCSI icon next to the HBA. [. . . ]