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5.
Remove the four screws that secure the unused drive sled (near the middle of the
bottom plate) and put them aside. The free drive sled will fall to the work surface.
6.
Turn the MeeBox over again, top-up.
7.
Attach the free drive sled to the bottom of your new hard drive using the four supplied
screws.
8.
Attach the free SATA cable to the hard drive.
9.
Place the hard drive (with attached sled) in the MeeBox, aligning the four screw holes
of the drive sled with the four free screw holes on the bottom plate of the MeeBox
chassis. The drive should be oriented with the SATA port facing toward the rear of the
MeeBox.
10.
While holding the hard drive against the bottom plate of the MeeBox chassis with one
hand, tilt the MeeBox to a vertical position so that the bottom of the chassis is facing
you. Then, making sure the screw holes of the drive sled are aligned with the
corresponding holes on the bottom plate, carefully screw the drive sled screws into the
chassis holes. (You must continue pressing the drive against the chassis with one hand
until two screws are in place.)
11.
Once the drive has been firmly secured to the MeeBox chassis, replace the top cover
and its retaining screws, reconnect all cables and cords, and turn your MeeBox on.
Verifying and formatting the second hard drive
When your MeeBox has finished booting up after the installation of the second hard drive,
check its proper operation using the disk utility:
1.
In your web browser, go to
http://meebox:8090/
, log in, and click
MeeBox Settings
.
2.
Click
Advanced Settings
, then
Management
, then
Disk Utility
.
In the drive table, you should see entries for both
/dev/hdc
(the primary hard drive) and
/dev/hdd
(the second hard drive). The status of both drives should be ―mounted‖.
If you intend to use the second drive as an independent volume, you must format the
drive by clicking the
Format
button in the disk utility. You can format the drive using any of
the following files systems: ext3, ext2, xfs, and FAT32. MeeBox’s default file system is ext3; it
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