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GT 051 ONTACTING LYPH Please use the following contact information to contact Glyph and its distributors. Glyph USA offers phone support Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time. Note: DO NOT ship any return goods to the mailing addresses below unless you have a valid RMA number.
GT 051 Contents of This Guide Glyph’s GT Series, p. 4 About the GT 051, p. 7 Unpacking Your GT 051, p. 12 Installing the Hardware, p. 13 Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS 9 Users, p. 14 Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS X Users, p. 16 Preparing Your Drive for Use: Windows Users, p.
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The GT Series sets new standards as Glyph’s Integrity™ technology surpasses today’s other hot-swappable storage. Firewire is an implementation of the IEEE 1394 serial bus standard. It not only supports automatic configuration ("plug and play") and...
Glyph uses efficient, high-quality power supplies, selected specifically for the demands of production environments. Our power supplies have a large amount of headroom, so your Glyph system will function, for brief periods of time, with AC lines significantly below specified limits.
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This integrated exchange system offers true hard drive hot-swap technology, ensuring data integrity and consistency: removing a hot-swap drive from a Glyph FireWire system interrupts the data signal at the FireWire bus, not on the ATA bus as with other hot-swap systems.
Unpacking Your GT 051 Your Glyph GT 051 and accessories are packaged in a sturdy shipping container. Please inspect the container for evidence of shipping damage and mishandling. AUTION If the container is damaged, file a report with the carrier or dealer immediately.
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Users) Your new drive should have automatically mounted on the desktop as a Glyph volume. We advise that you give it a recognizable name or number on your desktop. Your drive is a single volume by default. To re-initialize your drive, use the following procedure.
Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS X Users Since your Glyph hard disk drive comes pre-formatted for Macintosh you don’t need to format it on installation. If your computer is running Mac OS X and you decide to reformat or partition your drive, use Disk Utility (supplied with the Mac OS X operating system).
GT 051 Troubleshooting If you are having difficulties or need assistance getting started, Glyph Technical Support will be glad to assist you. Contact addresses and numbers are on page 3 of this guide. Before contacting Glyph please review the table below.