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- Page 1 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” eSATA / FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & USB2.0 Combo Solution Owner’s Manual...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 PORT VIEW & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 DETAILED VIEW 1.5.1 LED Indicator 2 SYSTEM SETUP 2.1 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION... -
Page 3: Introduction
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 1 - Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 System Requirements 1.1.1 Mac Requirements •Minimum PowerPC G4 CPU, 128MB RAM •FireWire interface, Mac OS X 10.2 or later •USB 2.0 interface, Mac OS X 10.2 or later 1.1.2 PC Requirements... -
Page 4: Port View & Cable Connections
1.5 Detailed View The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro has a cool blue LED at the front of the hard drive enclo- sure. It will illuminate blue when powered on, and flash on drive activity (both reading... -
Page 5: System Setup
2 SYSTEM SETUP 2.1 Software Installation The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro is plug & play, no drivers required with any modern OS. 2.2 Computer Connections To use the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro, connect any interface cable to the drive and the computer. -
Page 6: Formatting
Intel based Macintosh computer. For your new OWC external hard drive to provide boot compatibility (meaning you wish to run the operating system from the external drive) with Power-PC based computers (G3, G4, G5) using Mac OS X, you will need to repartition/format the drive and change the partition mapping from GUID to APM (Apple Partition Map**). - Page 7 Open the Disk Utility application, which is located in /Applications/Utilities ➀ Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 320.07 GB OWC device. Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text.
- Page 8 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 3 - Formatting ➁ Once you’ve selected the OWC device, you will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “Erase” tab in this picture. ➂ ➊ ➋ You then need to name the volume that you want to format, and erase it. Name the volume as you want, choose the Volume Format pulldown (Mac OS Extended (Jour- naled) is default), and click the Erase button.
- Page 9 Click the erase button to confirm you wish to erase the disk. ➄ After a few moments, the erase command will complete and the OWC Mercury Elite- AL Pro volume will mount on your desktop. You can quit Disk Utility, you’re all set!
- Page 10 Only for XP, 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section) Your new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro is preformatted for use with a Macintosh. Un- fortunately, this is not readable by Windows without special software. If you wish to use your storage solution on a computer running Windows, you will need to reparti- tion and reformat using the following instructions.
- Page 11 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 3 - Formatting 3.5 Formatting your OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro on Windows 2000 and later Instructions for other operating systems can be found at http://www.macsales.com/format. WARNING: This procedure will destroy ALL data on the disk you run it on!!! Be sure there is nothing you need to keep on your drive before running any of these commands.
- Page 12 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 3 - Formatting ➃ Your drive will appear similar to how Disk 1 does below. Notice that the space on the lower right reads as “Unallocated.” Right click in this space and choose “New Partition.”...
- Page 13 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 3 - Formatting ➇ If you like, you can specify the drive letter designation for your new drive. Otherwise, one will automatically be assigned. Click “Next. ” ➈ Before you can use the drive, it must be formatted.
- Page 14 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 3 - Formatting ➀➀ Once you have finished with the formatting wizard, you will see that your new drive (represented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “Formatting. ” This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format option.
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Page 15: Troubleshooting & Tips
Engineering’s Drive Genius. • Drive does not show up at all If your OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro drive is not being recognized at all, begin by checking some basic possibilities, such as: • Are all cables tightly attached to the computer and drive? •... - Page 16 4.2 Tips Identifying the LED indicators on your drive The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro has a cool blue LED at the front of the hard drive en- closure. They will illuminate blue when powered on, and flash on drive activity (both reading and writing).
- Page 17 OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 4 -Troubleshooting & Tips Backup Software For Mac OS X, we have included Prosoft Engineering’s Data Backup. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs.
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Page 18: Appendix
To ensure that your files are protected and to prevent the loss of your data, we strongly suggest that you keep two copies of your data: one copy on your OWC Mercury Elite- AL Pro, and a second copy on either your internal hard drive or another storage me- dium, such as an optical backup, or on a second external hard drive. -
Page 19: Customer Service
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” Chapter 6 - Customer Service 6 CUSTOMER SERVICE 6.1 Before Contacting Customer Service •Read this manual and review Chapter 4: Troubleshooting & Tips. •Try to confirm the problem is with the hard drive. If you have a second computer, move the enclosure to that system and verify that the solution does not function with that machine. - Page 20 Copyrights: Copyright © 2002-2011 Other World Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 Other World Computing. Changes: The material in this document is for information only and subject to change without notice.
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