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  • Page 1 user manual user manual user manual user manual user manual user manual user manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    2.3.2. USB 2.3.3. USB Power Cable 3. Installing Your LaCie Drive 3.1. Connect The Interface Cable to Your LaCie Rugged and to Your Computer 3.2. Disconnecting Your LaCie Drive 3.3. Switching FireWire and USB Connections 4. Using Your LaCie Drive 4.1.
  • Page 3 Table of Contents 5.3.1. FireWire 800 Ports And Performance 5.3.2. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Ports And Performance 5.4. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 vs. FireWire 400 vs. FireWire 800 6. FireWire Questions & Answers 7. USB Questions & Answers 8. Troubleshooting 8.1. Mac Users 8.2.

  • Page 4: Foreword

    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 5 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 6: Precautions

    Your hard drive contains no user-serviceable parts. If it appears to be malfunctioning, have it inspected by a qualified LaCie Technical Support representative. • Never expose your device to rain, or use it near water, or in damp or wet conditions. Never place objects containing liq- uids on the drive, as they may spill into its openings.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    1. Introduction 1. Introduction Thank you for the purchase of your new LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface. This triple interface hard drive system combines portability with compatibility, convenience and a generous storage capacity to help you manage your data. Your LaCie external hard drive system is cross-platform, which enables you to use it on both Macs and PCs;...

  • Page 8: Your Lacie Drive

    2. Your LaCie Drive 2. Your LaCie Drive 2.1. Minimum System Requirements Mac Users Windows Users FireWire 800 FireWire 800 Hardware Requirements for FireWire 800: Hardware Requirements for FireWire 800: • G4 with a FireWire 800/IEEE 1394b interface card • Pentium III or higher compatible processor, with a FireWire...

  • Page 9: Package Contents And Views Of The Drive

    2. Your LaCie Drive 2.2. Package Contents and Views of the Drive 2.2.1. Package Contents LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface FireWire 800 9-to-9-pin cable FireWire 400 6-to-6-pin cable Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable USB Power Cable LaCie Storage Utilities CD-ROM Important Note: Please keep your box.

  • Page 10: Rear View Of The Drive

    2. Your LaCie Drive 2.2.2. Rear View of the Drive Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Port - This is where you plug in the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable furnished with the drive. See section 3.1. Connecting the Interface Cable for more information.

  • Page 11: Cables And Connectors

    2. Your LaCie Drive 2.3. Cables and Connectors FireWire Icons Theses icons will help you easily 2.3.1. FireWire identify the FireWire interface. They FireWire 400, also known as IEEE 1394, is a high-speed serial input/output appear on FireWire cables, and...

  • Page 12: Usb

    USB Cables Your LaCie drive is shipped with a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable, to ensure maximum data transfer performance when connected to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. The cable will also work when connected to a USB port, but drive performance will be limited to USB 1.1 transfer rates.

  • Page 13: Usb Power Cable

    In the event that the USB bus on your computer does not provide the necessary power to operate your drive, the included USB Power Cable connects to an available USB port on your computer. The USB ports (either USB 2.0 or USB 1.1) on your computer will help provide power to your LaCie drive. Attach the small end of the USB Power Cable to the back of your LaCie drive.

  • Page 14: Installing Your Lacie Drive

    3. Installing Your LaCie Drive 3. Installing Your LaCie Drive Getting your LaCie Rugged Drive installed and connected as simple as connecting an interface cable to the drive and to a computer. There are three interface connectivity options when connecting your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface to your computer: FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0.
  • Page 15 3. Installing Your LaCie Drive Mac OS 9.x To use your new LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, first install the necessary driver software. Silverlining Pro Installation 1) Insert the LaCie Storage Utilities CD in your computer’s internal CD/DVD drive.
  • Page 16 Follow the steps below to install the necessary drivers and software to configure your drive. Then move on to the power supply and USB 2.0 cable installation steps. 1) Insert the LaCie Storage Utilities CD-ROM in your computer’s internal CD/DVD drive and open the disc (Fig.2.2). 2) Double-click the Silverlining 98 folder.

  • Page 17: Connect The Interface Cable To Your Lacie Rugged And To Your Computer

    FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Connect the interface cable to your drive through the host connector. (FireWire 400, FireWire 800 or USB 2.0). Connect the cable to your computer. After a few seconds, your LaCie Rugged Drive will mount on your computer. Important Note: This LaCie drive is preformatted in HFS+.

  • Page 18: Disconnecting Your Lacie Drive

    3. Installing Your LaCie Drive 3.2. Disconnecting Your LaCie Drive FireWire and USB external devices feature “plug & play” connectivity, which means that your drive can be connected and disconnected while the computer is running. To prevent failures, it is important you follow these steps when disconnecting your FireWire or USB peripheral device.

  • Page 19: Switching Between Usb And Firewire Connections

    When changing from a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connection to a FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 connection (and vice versa), follow these steps: Follow the steps in section 3.2 Disconnecting Your LaCie Drive to unmount the drive. Disconnect the USB or FireWire cable.

  • Page 20: Using Your Lacie Drive

    • If you want to be able to install multiple Mac operating volume, and the other as a large NTFS volume. systems on the LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, • If you will be using the drive in a strictly Win 2000/XP partition the drive into multiple Mac OS Extended volumes.

  • Page 21: Formatting And Partitioning Your Lacie Rugged Drive With Triple Interface

    4.1. Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface Once you have set-up your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs.The LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface is pre-formatted as a Mac OS Extended volume.
  • Page 22 4. Using Your LaCie Drive 7) From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the number of Tech Note: For a more detailed discussion on the partitions you want to divide the drive into by clicking on the pull various file system formats and partitioning, please down menu starting with Current (Mac OS 10.x gives you the...

  • Page 23: Windows Users

    4. Using Your LaCie Drive 4.1.2. Windows Users Warning: Following these steps will erase anything that is • Windows 2000 and XP – Use the Disk Management Utility, which is native to the on the hard drive. Therefore, if operating system.
  • Page 24 4. Using Your LaCie Drive 10). Here you must specify partition size. It is recommended that you leave the partition set to the maximum available size, unless you want multiple partitions on the same drive. Click Next. 11) Select Assign drive letter and select the desired letter for the drive.

  • Page 25: Tech Tips

    Mac OS 10.x Users: Mac OS X prefers that all paritions be the same format, The LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface is pre-formatted as a therefore only the first FAT 32 partition is guaranteed to Mac OS Extended volume. You may customize the drive by mount.

  • Page 26: Windows Users

    5. Tech Tips UNIX File System This is the file system based on UNIX, and is preferrable for users developing UNIX-based applications within Mac OS 10.x. Unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System, you should instead format your drive using Mac OS Extended (HFS+), because it provides Mac users with a more familiar operating experience.
  • Page 27 5. Tech Tips Guidelines for Choosing FAT 32 Or NTFS Use FAT 32 if: • You want to access your data on any Operating System - FAT 32 is compatible with Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000, XP, NT, Important Note: Mac OS 9.x and Mac OS 10.x (see in section 5.1.1.

  • Page 28: Available Storage Capacity

    If you do not have a native FireWire port, LaCie offers FireWire host bust adapter cards, also known as PCI or PC/PCMCIA cards, that have been tested and comply with LaCie drives. Please contact your reseller or LaCie Customer Support for more information.

  • Page 29: Firewire 800 Ports And Performance

    2000 and Windows XP, support FireWire 800 functionality, and the IEEE 1394b interface is not a standard feature implemented on the motherboards of all PC-compatible computers. Contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer Support for information abut FireWire 800 PCI or PC Cards, or visit our Web www.lacie.com...

  • Page 30: Hi-Speed Usb 2.0 Ports And Performance

    USB specifications. Mac OS 10.2.7 and later supports Hi-Speed USB 2.0, and Mac OS 10.x also supports Hi-Speed USB 2.0, but you will have to purchase a third-party PCI or PC Card and appropriate drivers. Contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer Support for information about Hi-Speed USB 2.0 PCI or PC Cards, or visit our www.lacie.com...
  • Page 31 PCMCIA slot on your computer, thereby allowing your computer to take advantage of the performances that FireWire and Hi- Speed USB 2.0 have to offer. Contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer Support for information about FireWire and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 PCI or PC www.lacie.com...

  • Page 32: Firewire Questions & Answers

    6. FireWire Questions & Answers 6. 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. There are now two standards: IEEE 1394a, which refers to the original standard adopted in 1995, and IEEE 1394b, which refers to the new standard, adopted in 2002.
  • Page 33 PCI or PCMCIA host bus adapter card. Please contact your computer supply specialist for a specific card that will work with your system. www.lacie.com/technologies For more information about the FireWire interface, please visit: user manual...

  • Page 34: Usb Questions & Answers

    USB Questions & Answers 7. USB Questions & Answers What Are The Benefits Of The USB Interfaces? • Cross-platform: Use your USB peripherals on both Mac and Windows platforms. • “Hot Swappable”: No need to shut down or restart your computer when adding or removing a USB device. Plug it in and its ready.

  • Page 35: Troubleshooting

    8. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface 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 www.lacie.com...

  • Page 36: Mac Users

    Drive. interface and operating system. Is there an icon for the drive There should be an icon for the LaCie drive on the desktop. appear on the desktop? Open Apple System Profiler and click on the Devices and Volumes tab. If your device is not listed, follow the rest of the Troubleshooting tips to isolate the problem.
  • Page 37 A device connected to the Is the LaCie Rugged Drive with Make sure that your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface connected directly is connected directly to the computer (see section 3.1.
  • Page 38 Questions to Ask Possible Solutions Is the LaCie Rugged Drive with The drive is working Make sure that your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface slowly. Triple Interface connected directly is connected directly to the computer (see section 3.1. to the host computer? Connecting The Interface Cable for more information).
  • Page 39 8. Troubleshooting The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions Are there other USB or FireWire The drive is not running Disconnect any other USB or FireWire devices and see if the noticeably faster when devices connected to the same drive’s performance increases. connected via Hi-Speed port or hub? USB 2.0.
  • Page 40 3.2. Disconnecting Your LaCie Drive. After you have disconnected the drive, push the blue On/Off button on the front of the drive to turn the drive off.
  • Page 41 Is there an icon for the drive in Go into My Computer and look for an icon and drive letter My Computer? assigned to the LaCie drive. If the drive does not appear, follow the rest of the Troubleshooting tips to isolate the problem.
  • Page 42 Controller. Click on the + sign next to the controller icon, and you should see your device listed. If you still can’t see your device, recheck the cables and try the other troubleshooting tips listed here. Contact LaCie Technical Support for help. user manual | page 42...
  • Page 43 3.2. Disconnecting Your LaCie Drive. After you have disconnected the drive, push the blue On/Off button on the front of the drive to turn the drive off.
  • Page 44 Ensure that the cable you are using has been properly Speed USB 2.0 cable to connect certified. The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable that was shipped with your drive? your LaCie drive has been properly certified and tested to comply with USB standards. user manual | page 44...

  • Page 45: Contacting Customer Support

    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, contact us via the provided Web link. Before contacting us, make sure that you are in front of your computer and that you have the following information on hand: •...
  • Page 46 9. Contacting Customer Support LaCie Asia, Singapore and Hong Kong LaCie Australia Contact Us At: Contact Us At: http://www.lacie.com/au/contact/ http://www.lacie.com/asia/contact LaCie Belgium LaCie Canada Contact Us At: Contact Us At: http://www.lacie.com/be/contact/ http://www.lacie.com/caen/contact/ (English) LaCie Denmark LaCie Finland Contact Us At: Contact Us At: http://www.lacie.com/dk/contact/...

  • Page 47: Warranty

    • The broken part is a replacement part such as a pickup tray, etc. • The tamper seal on the drive casing is broken. LaCie and its suppliers accept no liability for any loss of data during the use of this device, or for any of the problems caused as a result.

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