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6. Maintaining Your LaCie Biggest F800
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LaCie Biggest F800
User’s Manual
6. Maintaining Your LaCie Biggest F800
6.1. Removing/Replacing A Drive
In the event that an individual hard disk fails in the LaCie Biggest F800, please contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer
Support. Additional, spare Drive Bays with pre-installed hard disks may also be purchased (sold separately).
6.2. Firmware Updates
The LaCie Biggest F800 may periodically have releases of updated firmware. Visit LaCie’s Web site,
www.lacie.com
, for the
latest firmware update.
When you would like to install new firmware, download the update and install the firmware to the LaCie Biggest F800 by
utilizing a host computer that has some form of third-party communication, such as HyperTerminal, that supports ANSI
terminal emulation. The setup process covered in this section is based on HyperTerminal; however, other terminal programs
may also be used.
1) Power off the LaCie Biggest F800.
2) Connect one end of the Serial/RS-232 cable to the Serial/RS-232 port on the back of the LaCie Biggest F800, and the
other end to a Serial/RS-232 port on the host computer.
3) Launch HyperTerminal:
Start
>
Programs
>
Accessories
>
Communications
>
HyperTerminal
.
4) The
Connection Description
dialog box will appear (if this is the first time that HyperTerminal has been launched, you will
be prompted to enter information about your location). Enter a name that will identify the LaCie Biggest F800 connection (e.g.
Biggest), and select an icon that will represent the connection. Click
OK
.
Caution!
Do
NOT
attempt to replace a hard disk yourself. Removing a hard disk from a Drive Bay will void the
warranty.
Important Info:
Array configuration and data are not affected by firmware updates.
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Tech Note:
HyperTerminal is a standard bundle with the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is located in the
Communications folder. If you do not have a version installed, it may be downloaded from Hilgraeve Software, at
http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/
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