LaCie 301346U - Big Disk Network NAS Server User Manual page 41

LaCie Little Big Disk
User Manual
Unplanned shut- Did you have an improper shutdown,
down. forced restart or power interruption?
Mac OS 10.3.x Is the drive formatted as a NTFS
"hangs" when you volume?
connect a LaCie
Little Big Disk with
Triple Interface.
The drive turns on This is normal. Your drive has an autoswitching power feature, which means that if your drive is
and off when you connected to your computer, turning the computer on will automatically turn the drive on. Likewise,
turn your comput- turning the computer off will automatically turn the drive off. If you wish to power off the drive while
er on and off. it is connected to your computer, first make sure that your computer is not accessing the drive and
then follow the steps in section 3.2. Disconnecting your LaCie
If this happens and you are running Mac OS 10.x, you can
utilize Apple's Disc Utility to check the status of the drive
and recover from such an event. Please refer to Apple's
Web site article: Mac OS X: About Using Disc Utility and
fsck for File System Management.
If the file cluster size is set at 4KB (which is the default set-
ting under Windows), this may be too small. Reformat the
drive and change the cluster size to 32KB.
drive.
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