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Four Port External Serial ATA PCI-X Host Adapter

User Manual for Power Macintosh

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Page 1: ...Store and Share your Digital Creations SeriTek 1VE4 SeriTek 1eVE4 Four Port External Serial ATA PCI X Host Adapter User Manual for Power Macintosh...

Page 2: ...FirmTek reserves the right to make any changes to product design specifications or details without notice Actual product photos or screenshots may look different from those provided Notice The materia...

Page 3: ...k 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 5 III Connecting and Formatting Hard Drives 7 IV Using SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 Hot Swap Functionality 19 V Troubleshooting 23 VI Product Support 25 VII Product Warranty a...

Page 4: ...e way for Macintosh users to add inexpensive high speed storage With four external Serial ATA ports each offering 1 5Gbits sec performance the SeriTek 1VE4 SeriTek 1eVE4 provide the high bandwidth to...

Page 5: ...orage devices no master slave means easier installation and replacement Ideal for a variety of Power Macintosh applications Desktop publishing Audio Video storage and editing photo graphics storage an...

Page 6: ...Features Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0a specification Bus Mastering off loads data I O handling from CPU Complete 32 bit CRC error checking for all bits transmitted command data and status offer...

Page 7: ...irements Power Macintosh with available PCI or PCI X expansion slot External powered enclosure equipped with Serial ATA hard drive s or Parallel ATA hard drive s Parallel ATA hard drives require compa...

Page 8: ...or top cover On some models you may need to open an additional metal or plastic cover to access the PCI slots Please refer to your Macintosh user s manual for more information about gaining access to...

Page 9: ...Tek 1eVE4 8 Close your Power Macintosh computer case and re attach the AC power cord Ready for Use Your SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 host adapter is now installed The SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 ho...

Page 10: ...Serial ATA cable s to the Serial ATA receptacle s on the SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 and connect the other end s to the external enclosure 4 Power on the external enclosure Note Macintosh computers...

Page 11: ...e cable using the proper orientation to your SeriTek host adapter and external enclosure It should easily snap into place Please do not force the cable connector onto the host adapter and hard drive o...

Page 12: ...ge the partition layout of your hard drives 1 Turn on your Power Macintosh computer 2 Open Apple s Drive Setup To find and open this application a Hold down the Command key and press the F key simulta...

Page 13: ...10 3 Locate and double click on the Drive Setup application program utility see Figure 5 Figure 5 Running Apple s Drive Setup Utility...

Page 14: ...icking on it See Figure 6 If this is a new unformatted drive it may show up as not initialized Note For ideal performance and compatibility SeriTek 1VE4 SeriTek 1eVE4 use SCSI emulation that allows yo...

Page 15: ...Manual Figure 7 Initializing the Hard Drive 6 After the hard drive is successfully initialized it should appear on the desktop as untitled 7 The hard drive may be renamed by selecting the word untitle...

Page 16: ...tilities folder of the Macintosh OS X start up volume To open this application a Double click the Mac OS X startup volume b Double click the Applications folder c Double click the Utilities folder d D...

Page 17: ...e drive you wish to format Note Some versions of Apple Disk Utility incorrectly display Serial ATA hard drives as having the Connection Type of Slave Serial ATA hard drives are all in fact Master driv...

Page 18: ...a name of description for your new hard drive 7 If you wish to have your new hard drive be recognized by Mac OS 9 XX select the Install Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox Users who dual boot both Mac OS 9 XX a...

Page 19: ...st A volume that is mirrored also known as RAID 1 has its data duplicated from one hard drive onto another A mirrored volume offers data integrity and immediate access to data in the event of a single...

Page 20: ...lume onto the Disk status window 6 Repeat step 5 for each member for the RAID volume 7 Choose a RAID Scheme Stripe or Mirror 8 Name the new RAID volume 9 For Volume Format the most common choice is Ma...

Page 21: ...the options you selected click on the Create button to initialize the new RAID volume see Figure 14 Figure 14 Creating a new RAID volume 11 After the RAID volume is successfully initialized it should...

Page 22: ...riTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 host adapter Future SeriTek 1VE4 SeriTek 1eVE4 firmware may provide the ability to support RAID volumes that span hard drives among multiple SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 h...

Page 23: ...ure 16 There are four Serial ATA channels on the SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 0 1 2 3 One or more dialog boxes will appear verifying which drive was attached to which channel See Figures 17 and 18 Fi...

Page 24: ...g it Eject or drag all of the volumes associated with the hard drive s before disconnecting or removing them When removing a hard drive you will see a SATA Configuration Changed window See Figure 19 I...

Page 25: ...ed hard drive s a Device Removal dialog box will appear See Figure 21 This dialog box shows up as a reminder to unmount volumes properly before disconnecting or removing external hard drives Failure t...

Page 26: ...nced users may use the Apple System Profiler to determine whether your Macintosh computer recognizes if the SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 is properly seated in a PCI slot and operating properly Apple...

Page 27: ...lable have limited hardware resources These limited resources severely limit data transfer rates of many storage technologies including Serial ATA Does the SeriTek 1VE4 or SeriTek 1eVE4 work with all...

Page 28: ...urn shipping charges will be paid by FirmTek Foreign and other shipping methods such as express shipping are available for an additional charge Write down the RMA number on the outside of the shipping...

Page 29: ...ent reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the re...

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