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8. Name and format the partition and click

.

9. Review the file system settings and click

to create the logical partition.

Important: Before reconfiguring a volume, back up your data and drag the old
drive to the trash to un-mount previously defined SteelVine Storage Reference
Design partition. If no hard drives are connected to the Storage Appliance, the
SteelVine Processor disk (8.0 GB Config Disk Media) will appear. Do not remove
or modify that partition. After you configure and partition the new volumes, restore
the backed-up data to the new configuration.
1. Launch

from the

>

folder.

Next

Finish

Mac OS X

Disk Utility

Application

Utilities

2. Select a configured disk and click the Partition tab. This procedure illustrates
the

Storage Policy configuration, which concatenates the capacity of all hard

drives connected to the SteelVine Storage Reference Design.

BIG

3. Select 1

from the

drop-down list.

4. Enter a name for the volume in the

field (such as “My BIG disk”.)

Partition

Volume Scheme

Name

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5. Select

from the Format drop-down list.

6. Specify the size of the partition in the

field.

7. Click the

button.

8. Click

to acknowledge the warning.

Mac OS Extended (journaled)

Size

Partition

Partition

Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the
desktop. The icon is labeled with the partition name.

the methods of operation with the USB interface.

1. If this product is in use for the first time or the mode (

) is changed, we must initialize and format the HDD before. (All

information will be eliminated when format hard drives)
2. When you need to change different mode (BIG, JBOD, RAID0/FAST,
RAID1/SAFE) you must press the RESET button, so that the enclosure can
distinguish the exact mode.
3. If you require a faster data transfer,

MODE will be suggested to

use.
4. If you require a higher data security,

MODE will be suggested to

use.
5. If you require a bigger hard disk capacity,

will be suggested to use.

The FANTEC MR-35DUF provides the following Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment (SATA) features:
Automatic negotiation between SATA I (1.5Gbps) and SATA II (3.0 Gbps)
Serial ATA 2.5 specification compliance (Gen2m)
For detailed information about SATA technology, refer to the following

2.2 Firewire interface

3. NOTE :

BIG, JBOD, RAID0/FAST,

RAID1/SAFE

RAID0/FAST

RAID1/ SAFE

BIG MODE

4. Features
4.1 High speed external storage solution, USB2.0, Firewire 1394a/b.
SATA Features

specifications online:
Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment, Revision 1.0a
The Serial ATA web site is http://www.serialata.org/.

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Summary of Contents for MR-35DUF

Page 1: ...FANTEC MR 35DUF USER MANUAL Rebuild POWER ...

Page 2: ...FE MODE 9 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes 10 2 2 Firewire interface 14 4 1 High speed external storage solution USB2 0 480Mb s Firewire 400 800Mb s 14 4 2 Serial ATA HDD 15 4 3 Four Working Mode 15 4 4 Support system Windows 2000 XP VISTA Mac os 9 0 or above version 17 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows 17 Front Back 1 Product Introduction SATA HDD 2 to USB 2 0 Firewire interface 2 POWER Rebuild ...

Page 3: ...resented in the following graph Please do not connect USB and Firewire at the same time Turn the switch to RAID0 LED will keep bright and the host will be entering the RAID0 active status Turn the switch to RAID1 RAID1 LED keep bright and the host will be entering the RAID1 active status Turn the switch to JBOD JBOD LED keep bright and the host will be entering the JBOD active status Turn the swit...

Page 4: ...ends blue light and the HDD2 LED continue glittering in turn with blue red lights HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter in turn with blue red lights Self checking completes when the HDD1 LED sends blue light and the HDD2 LED continues glittering in turn with blue red lights Under the material transmission condition The HDD1 LED glitters with purple light and the HDD2 LED glitters in turn with blue red lig...

Page 5: ...mentation additional disks 2 1 2 BIG MODE BIG RESET My Computer manage 2 1 3 RAID0 FAST MODE RAID0 RESET My Computer manage The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to and press switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices and increased 1 drive If not drive the...

Page 6: ...w to operate Disks Management plan H Delete Disk Segmentation Segmentation additional disks 9 2 1 5 Partitioning Volumes Partition a Volume MS Windows Important Not Initialized My Computer Manage This section explains how to partition volumes after configuring them in the SteelVine Manager GUI You must partition volumes for the host computer s operating system before you can store data on the volu...

Page 7: ...ox appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the SteelVine Processor Disk item and click Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a disk 3 Right click the configured disk s unallocated space and select If the New Partition option is not available select the disk and initialize it first To do this right click on the disk item and select Basic Online Unknow...

Page 8: ...urnaled Size Partition Partition Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name the methods of operation with the USB interface 1 If this product is in use for the first time or the mode is changed we must initialize and format the HDD before All information will be eliminated when format hard drives 2 When you ne...

Page 9: ...n of virtual volumes beyond the physical limitations of singularly connected hard drives SteelVine BIG storage policy delivers maximum storage space without a single large capacity and costly hard drive Hard drive A and B are concatenated into a single virtual volume in the Figure below with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B Firewire 1394a b Fe...

Page 10: ...erview This appendix describes the procedures needed with Microsoft Windows for expanding file systems that have been created on volumes that have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recogni...

Page 11: ... been extended the 152 67GB Unallocated was not accessible for data usage After using the disk part utility to extend the hard drive partition volume capacity the Windows host side matches the virtual hard drive partition volume created in the SteelVine Manager FANTEC MR 35DUF User manual AC Cable USB 2 0 Cable Firewire A cable 400 Firewire B cable 800 5 Package contens 19 ...

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