System Setup; Quick Start; Large Volume Support And Firewire Booting In Mac Os - OWC Mercury Elite Pro User Manual

2.1 QUICK START

Before your Mercury Elite Pro can be put to use, it needs to be formatted. To help with the
formatting process, the OWC Drive Guide formatting utility has been installed onto your
Mercury Elite Pro. Follow these steps to use the OWC Drive Guide to format your Mercury
Elite Pro for OS X (10.4 and later) or Windows (XP and later).
1. Connect your drive to your computer using the proper cable, then turn on your drive. If
you prefer to use a different formatting utility, do so at this time and skip the rest of these
instructions.
2. Your drive will show up as "OWC HD". Open your drive to view its contents.
3. Open the "Macintosh Setup" or "Windows Setup" folder, depending on the computer's
operating system, then double-click the OWC Drive Guide application.
4. Follow the simple on-screen instructions to complete the formatting process.
5. Once the formatting is finished the drive is ready to use.

2.2 LARGE VOLUME SUPPORT AND FIREWIRE BOOTING IN MAC OS

When your Mercury Elite Pro is preconfigured, a setting known as "large volume support" is
enabled. Enabling large volume support allows the Mercury Elite Pro to utilize the full capac-
ity of hard drives larger than 2TB.
When large volume support is enabled, PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs introduced before
2008 will not be able to boot to the Mercury Elite Pro over the FireWire connection. This is
a limitation of these computers. Mac models introduced in 2008 and later are capable of
using the Mercury Elite Pro as a startup drive over FireWire, even with large volume support
enabled. Note that this only affects FireWire booting. All Intel Macs are still able to boot to
the Mercury Elite Pro over USB, regardless of large volume support.
If your Mercury Elite Pro contains a drive smaller than 2TB in capacity and you wish to use
it as a FireWire startup drive for a pre-2008 Mac, please contact OWC technical support for
assistance with disabling large volume support (see Section 3.6, Technical Support Hours
and Contact Information).
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SYSTEM SETUP