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Chapter 6 – Formatting Drives Connected via eSATA
Mac OS X Drive Formatting—Individual Drives (Not in
a RAID Set)
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing)
individual hard drives connected to the Qio enclosure's eSATA
ports using Disk Utility under Mac OS X Version 10.5; the process
is nearly identical under Mac OS X Version 10.6. If you intend to
create a Mac OS-formatted RAID set, go back to "Mac OS X Drive
Formatting—RAID Sets" on the previous page.
1. Turn on your computer. During startup, your computer
will display one or more messages referring to unreadable
volumes; click Initialize... to launch Disk Utility. After
Disk Utility launches, click the Initialize button in each
remaining message window.
2. If it is not already open, launch Disk Utility (Figure 4). Note
that all attached drives appear in the information window,
regardless of being formatted or not.
3. Select a drive you want to format by clicking the drive icon
or the "name" of the drive (Figure 5). At the bottom of the
window, drive capacity, connection type, and connection ID
information are listed.
4. Click on the Partition button (Figure 5). Click on the
drop down menu beneath "Volume Scheme:" and select a
number of partitions for the volume; you may optionally
choose to partition each drive to create two or more smaller
"virtual" drives.
5. Click to highlight a partition, and then type a name in
the Name field; repeat for each partition (Figure 5). After
formatting, each partition will appear in the Finder window
as a drive*.
6. Click Partition (Figure 5).
7. When the Partition Disk window appears, click the Partition
button (Figure 6). If necessary, repeat steps 3–6 to partition
any other drives connected to Qio. When partitioning and
formatting are complete, close the Disk Utility application;
you can now use your drive(s).
* I f you changed the Finder preferences setting to not show hard drives
on the desktop, newly-formatted drives won't appear on the desktop
after you've formatted them.
drives connected
to Qio
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