OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface" Owner's Manual page 16

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface" Chapter 4 -Troubleshooting & Tips
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).
To properly unmount any connected hard drives from your computer, you need
to follow a few simple steps:
• For Macintosh systems:
There are multiple methods to umount disks with Macintosh systems. Either drag the
icon for the hard disk you wish to dismount to the trash can, or you can click the eject
icon next to the hard disk name in under the "DEVICES" tab in the sidebar in any finder
window, and finally another method is to right click on the hard drive icon on your
desktop and select "Eject".
• For Windows systems:
1. Go to the System Tray (located in the lower right corner of your screen). Click on the
Eject icon (a small green arrow over a hardware image).
2. A message will appear, detailing the devices that the Eject icon controls. i.e. "Safely
remove... " Click on this prompt.
3. You will then be given the following message. "Safe to Remove Hardware". It is now
safe to unhook the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro.
Special note for using FireWire with older Macintosh systems
If you are using an older Macintosh system, or using a PCI FireWire card to interface
with your OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro drive, we recommend using the included Intech®
Hard Disk SpeedTools™ to tune the drive for optimum performance. Transfer errors or
corruption can be avoided by using this software. This is especially recommended if
you are not using Mac OS X but rather using Mac OS 9.