Appendix; Large Volume Support And Firewire Booting In Mac Os; Formatting; Unmounting Drives - OWC Mercury Elite Pro User Manual

2.1 LARGE VOLUME SUPPORT AND FIREWIRE BOOTING IN MAC OS

As your OWC Mercury Elite Pro is preconfigured and shipped, a setting known as "large vol-
ume support" has been enabled in the enclosure. Enabling large volume support allows the
Mercury Elite Pro enclosure to utilize the full capacity 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 OWC Mercury Elite Pro over the FireWire connection.
This is a limitation of these computers. Mac models introduced in 2008 and later are fully
capable of using the OWC Mercury Elite Pro as a boot 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 OWC Mercury Elite Pro over USB, regardless of large volume support.
If your OWC Mercury Elite Pro contains a drive smaller than 2TB in capacity and you wish to
use it as a FireWire boot drive for a pre-2008 Mac, please contact OWC technical support for
assistance with disabling large volume support (see Section 2.7, Technical Support Hours
and Contact Information).

2.2 FORMATTING

For formatting information, including instructions on how to format your OWC Mercury Elite
Pro for Mac or Windows, go to:

2.3 UNMOUNTING DRIVES

To properly unmount any connected drives from your computer, you need to follow a few
simple steps.
For Mac OS X systems:
There are two main methods to umount disks with Mac OS X systems. Either drag the
icon for the disk you wish to unmount to the trash can, or right-click the disk icon on the
desktop, then click "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 disconnect the OWC Mercury Elite Pro from the computer.
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