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LaCie Hard Drive User Manual

LaCie Hard Drive User Manual

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  • Page 1: How To Use This Manual

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual How to Use This Manual page i How to Use This Manual In the toolbar: Previous Page / Next Page Go to Previous View / Go to Next View Go to Contents Page / Go to Precautions Page On the page: Click on the text within the Contents page to jump to information on that topic.
  • Page 2 LaCie assumes no liability resulting from errors or omis- sions in this document, or from the use of the information contained herein. LaCie reserves the right to make changes or revi- sions in the product design or the product manual without reservation and without obligation to notify any person of such revisions and changes.
  • Page 3 This Class A digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations. Manufacturer’s Declaration for CE Certification We, LaCie, solemnly declare that this product conforms to the following European standards: Class B EN60950, EN55022, EN50082-1, EN61000-3-2 With reference to the following conditions:...

  • Page 4: Health And Safety Precautions

    General Use Precautions: • Do not expose the hard drive to temperatures outside the range of 5° C to 45° C (41° F to 104° F). Doing so may damage the drive or disfigure its casing. Avoid placing your drive near a source of heat or exposing it to sunlight (even through a win- dow).

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    1.1. Icons Used in This Manual 1.2. What Is FireWire? 1.3. What Is USB 2.0? 1.4. LaCie Storage Utilities Software 2. Getting To Know Your LaCie Hard Drive 2.1. Minimum System Requirements 2.2. LaCie Hard Drive – Views 2.3. FireWire Cables And Connectors 2.4.
  • Page 6 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Table of Contents page 5 5. Technical Information 5.1. User Advice When Using FireWire 5.2. User Advice When Using USB 2.0 5.3. Data Transfers 5.4. Available Storage Capacity 5.5. FAT 32 vs. NTFS 5.6. Mac OS Standard vs. Mac OS Extended 5.7.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Health And Safety Precautions. Warranty LaCie accepts no liability for any loss of data during the use of this device, or for any of the problems caused as a result. Under no circumstances does LaCie guarantee the reliability of the hard drive.

  • Page 8: What Is Firewire

    Manual Updates LaCie is constantly striving to give you the most up-to-date, comprehensive User’s Manuals available on the market. It is our goal to provide you with a friendly, easy-to-use format that will help you quickly install and utilize the many functions of your new device.

  • Page 9: Lacie Storage Utilities Software

    1.4. LaCie Storage Utilities Software The LaCie Storage Utilities CD is a hybrid CD-ROM that has the Mac version, Silverlining Pro and SilverKeeper, and the PC version, Silverlining 98, on the same CD. Mac users will be able to only view and use the Mac portion, and PC users will be able to only view and use the PC version.

  • Page 10: Getting To Know Your Lacie Hard Drive

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Getting To Know Your LaCie Hard Drive page 9 2. Getting To Know Your LaCie Hard Drive What can your external hard drive system do? • Store and exchange data between several computers. • Back up your computers’ internal hard drive.

  • Page 11: Lacie Hard Drive - Views

    6 – Serial Number Sticker This is where you will find your LaCie drive's serial number. Write down the serial number and keep it in a safe place, because you will need to provide the number in the event you have to call LaCie Technical Support for any reason in regards...

  • Page 12: Firewire Cables And Connectors

    LaCie drive to a laptop, you will need to purchase a 9-to-4-pin cable. Important Note: If the cable supplied with the LaCie drive does not meet your requirements, please contact your computer supply specialist. 2.4. USB Cables And Connectors Your LaCie drive is shipped with a USB 2.0-certified USB cable, to ensure maximum data...

  • Page 13: Setting Up Your Lacie Hard Drive

    You may use your LaCie drive when in a foreign country, thanks to its auto-switching 100-240 Volt Important Note: power supply. To be able to use this feature, you may need to purchase an appropriate adapter. Consult LaCie Technical Support for assistance in choosing the right adapter. LaCie accepts no responsibility for any damage to the drive resulting from the use of an inappropriate adapter.

  • Page 14: Windows 2000 And Windows Xp

    3) Connect the other end of the 9-pin FireWire 800 cable into an available FireWire 800 port on your computer. 4) Your LaCie Hard Drive will now be ready for use. Now you will be able to format and partition the drive to suit your needs.
  • Page 15 2) Connect the 9-pin end of the FireWire bilingual cable into the FireWire 800 port on the back of the LaCie Hard Drive. 3) Connect the 6-pin end of the FireWire bilingual cable into an available FireWire 400 port on your computer.

  • Page 16: Windows 98Se, Windows Me, Windows 2000 And Windows Xp

    3) Connect the 6-pin end of the FireWire bilingual cable into an available FireWire 400 port on your computer. 4) Your LaCie Hard Drive will now be ready for use. Now you will be able to format and partition the drive to suit your needs.

  • Page 17: Mac Os

    To achieve USB 2.0 speeds, you will need to purchase a third-party USB 2.0 host interface PCI card. Otherwise, you will be limited to USB 1.1 speeds. 4) Your LaCie Hard Drive will now be ready for use. You can then use the formatting and partitioning capabilities in...

  • Page 18: Windows Me, Windows 2000 And Windows Xp

    3) Connect the other end of the USB 2.0 cable into an available USB port on your computer. 4) Your LaCie Hard Drive will now be ready for use. Now you will be able to format and partition the drive to suit your needs.

  • Page 19: Disconnecting Your Lacie Hard Drive

    LED is off before disconnecting the USB or FireWire cable. 3.5.1. Mac Users You must unmount the hard drive system before disconnecting it or powering it down. Either: • Drag the hard drive icon to the trash. • Launch Silverlining Pro, highlight the hard drive and select “Unmount.”...

  • Page 20: Attaching The Drive Stand

    2) From the rear of the drive, separate the two rails and slide the larger stand rail into the side groove of your LaCie drive as shown below: 3) Slide the stand forward until its rail touches the front of the drive.

  • Page 21: Formatting And Partitioning Your Lacie Hard Drive

    20 4. Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie Hard Drive Once you have set-up your LaCie Hard Drive, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs. 4.1. Mac Users • Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x – Install and use LaCie Silverlining Pro, which is included with your drive.

  • Page 22: Windows Users

    4.2. Windows Users • Windows 98 SE and Me – Install and use LaCie Silverlining 98, which is included with your drive. • Windows 2000 and XP – Use the Disk Management Utility, which is native to the operating system.
  • Page 23 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Formattng And Partitioning Your LaCie Hard Drive page 22 5) Windows will list the new drive(s) attached. If you are formatting a single drive, only one drive should be visible. Select the checkbox next to the drive and click Next.

  • Page 24: Formatting And Partitioning Using Windows 98Se And Windows Me

    3) Ensure that View devices by type is selected. Expand the menu next to Disk Drives by clicking the + sign, and current hard drives connected to the computer will be listed. Next, connect the hard drive and click Refresh. A new drive should be listed.

  • Page 25: Technical Information

    Power Save The LaCie Hard Drive manages power consumption. If the system’s power save feature supports it, the drive will spin down during the power save mode. After the system comes out of power save, the drive will take a few seconds to spin up to full power before it can be accessed.

  • Page 26: Data Transfers

    1) Make sure that the USB or FireWire cable is connected tightly and securely on both ends of the cable, from the drive to the computer. If you are using a USB or FireWire cable other than the one supplied with your LaCie drive, check that your USB or FireWire cable is properly certified.

  • Page 27: Available Storage Capacity

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Technical Information page 26 5.4. Available Storage Capacity A gigabyte (GB) means 1,000,000,000 bytes. In order to utilize a hard disk drive, it has to be formatted first. 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...

  • Page 28: Mac Os Standard Vs. Mac Os Extended

    Mac. Initially, these spaces were small, due to the lack of size in hard drives (i.e. hard drives smaller than 1GB), but as hard drive space increased, the file system became inefficient. With HFS, even the smallest file on any disk has to occupy at least one block.
  • Page 29 If your computer is equipped with a USB 1.1 port and a FireWire port, you will get noticeably better performance by using the FireWire connection. Even though your LaCie drive comes with a USB 2.0 cable and interface, by connecting through the USB 1.1 port, the drive will be limited to USB 1.1 speeds and performance.

  • Page 30: Troubleshooting

    6. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie Hard Drive is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out where the problem is coming from. If you have gone through all of the points on the checklist and your drive is still not working correct- ly, please have a look at the FAQs that are regularly published on our Web site –...
  • Page 31 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Troubleshooting page 30 The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions The drive is not recognized. Are the USB or FireWire drivers installed Windows 98 SE & Me Users: Go to correctly and enabled? Start > Settings > Control Panel > System >...
  • Page 32 Did you get an error message telling you Simply ignore this message. The drive that the drive has been disconnected will remount to the desktop. LaCie drives when coming out of sleep mode? conserve power by spinning down when time to spin-up from its sleep mode.
  • Page 33 System support USB 2.0? Adapters And Performance for more information. Are you using a USB 2.0 certified cable? Ensure that you are using a certified USB 2.0 cable. The USB 2.0 cable that was shipped with your LaCie drive is certi- fied.
  • Page 34 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Troubleshooting page 33 The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions You wish to uninstall the USB 2.0 driv- What is the uninstall procedure? 1) From the Start menu, go to Settings > ers from your PC.

  • Page 35: Contacting Customer Service

    If you have asked yourself all of the pertinent questions in the troubleshooting checklist, and you still can't get your LaCie drive to work properly, call us directly using the number below. Before calling, make sure that you are in front of your computer...
  • Page 36 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Contacting Customer Support page 35 Technical Support Help Hours - Continued LaCie Italy LaCie Japan LaCie Netherlands • Monday through Friday, 9AM – 6PM • Monday through Friday, 9AM – 5PM • Monday through Friday, 9AM – 5PM...

  • Page 37: Warranty

    LaCie warrants your Big Disk against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the warranty period, LaCie will, at its option, repair or replace the defective hard drive.

  • Page 38: Appendix 1 - Firewire Questions And Answers

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Appendix 1 page 37 8. Appendix 1 – FireWire Questions & Answers What Does IEEE 1394 Mean? IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) refers to the engineering corps that developed the 1394th standard, defining the high-performance serial input/output (I/O) bus used to connect peripheral devices.
  • Page 39 Unfortunately, this is not the case. In order to attain FireWire 800 speeds, both the device and port have to be FireWire 800 enabled. For instance, an external hard drive with a FireWire 800 9-pin connection will only reach FireWire 800 transfer rates when it is connected to a FireWire 800 9-pin host bus adapter card via a properly certified FireWire 800 9-pin to 9-pin beta cable.
  • Page 40 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Appendix 1 page 39 cific card that will work with your system. For more information about the FireWire interface, please visit: http://www.lacie.com/technologies...

  • Page 41: Appendix 2 - Usb Questions And Answers

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Appendix 2 page 40 9. Appendix 2 – USB 2.0 Questions & Answers What Are The Benefits Of The USB Interfaces? The USB 1.1 and 2.0 interfaces provide many of the same benefits, particularly: • They are based on serial bus technology.
  • Page 42 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Appendix 2 page 41 on the same bus. However, if you plug in a USB 2.0 device to a USB 1.1 bus, the speed of the USB 2.0 device will decrease to 12Mb/s. What Is A USB Hub? Will USB 2.0 Devices Work On USB 1.1 Hubs And Vice Versa? You can connect up to 127 devices to a single USB bus.

  • Page 43: Glossary

    LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Glossary page 42 9. Glossary Asynchronous – Data transfer method where the data is transferred independently of other processes. With this transfer method, the intervals between transmissions can vary, and data can be resent if it is initially missed.
  • Page 44 LaCie Hard Drive User’s Manual Glossary page 43 connected to the computer. Cross-platform – Term that refers to a device that is able to be operated by both Mac and Windows operating systems. Data Stream – The flow of data that accomplishes a task, usually related to moving data from storage to computer RAM or between storage devices.
  • Page 45 Interface – The protocol data transmitters, data receivers, logic and wiring that link one piece of computer equipment to another, such as a hard drive to an adapter or an adapter to a system bus. Protocol means a set of rules for operating the physical interface, such as: do not read or write before the drive is ready.
  • Page 46 Overwrite – To write data on top of existing data thus erasing the original data. Partition, -ing – After formatting, the hard drive is not yet ready to store files. It must be divided into sections that will contain special information required for a Mac or PC to operate and other sections that will contain the files. This process of dividing up the hard drive is called partitioning.
  • Page 47 Volume – A desktop mountable storage area, may be a partition of a hard drive, a removable disk or a cartridge. Typically measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes.

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