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Pleiades - Taurus                                                                                            User Guide 

 

 

 

 

If the system 

doesn’t recognise 

the drive, turn on 

the power first, 

before connecting 

the interface cable 

or connect the 

device before 

booting your 

Operating System. 

 

 

 

Installation on a PC 

Before connecting the device, setup the RAID using the 

switches at the back of the enclosure. See page 2 and 6 for 

more details about the RAID setup. 

 

If the drives have been pre-installed and setup already, you do 

not need to change anything, unless you prefer a different 

setup. 

 

  Turn on your Computer and start Windows 

  Connect the Taurus and turn it on 

  Let Windows search and install the driver automatically 

  Open “My Computer” to see your external hard drive 

 

For factory new drives and more info about formatting, see 

page 9 

Æ

 “Partitioning & Formatting”. 

 

 

 

Remove Procedure 

For the safe removal of your drive and to assure that no data is 

lost, always follow the correct unplug procedure. Otherwise, an 

error message will appear. 

 

  Click on the taskbar icon for external hardware 

  Choose your external hard drive and confirm to remove it 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Страница 1: ...Pleiades Taurus Dual Bay Storage Enclosure for 3 5 Serial ATA Hard Drives User Manual v1 0 EN...

Страница 2: ...IEW 2 RAID 0 SPANNING 6 REAR VIEW 2 RAID 0 STRIPING 6 RAID SETTING 2 INSTALLATION ON A PC 7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 3 REMOVE PROCEDURE 7 PC REQUIREMENTS 3 INSTALLATION ON A MACINTOSH 8 MAC REQUIREMENTS 3...

Страница 3: ...and rugged offering more than enough capacity to store all your digital media files Not only that the Pleiades Taurus can also back up and secure all of your data thanks to RAID protection Great perf...

Страница 4: ...itch for RAID Setting 2 Fan for Ventilation 3 Firewire 800 ports 4 USB 2 0 port 5 Power Receptacle RAID Setting Non RAID RAID 0 Striping 1 Up 2 Up 1 Down 2 Up Not in Use Non RAID RAID 0 Spanning 1 Dow...

Страница 5: ...ve USB 2 0 equipped Mac Mac OS 10 2 or above 1394a equipped Mac Mac OS 9 2 10 1 5 or above 1394b equipped Mac Mac OS 10 2 or above Package Contents Pleiades Taurus External Power Adapter Input 100 240...

Страница 6: ...Assembly Your unit may come with a pre installed hard drive Before opening such an enclosure please read the warranty and any other notes from your vendor carefully before doing so as this could void...

Страница 7: ...Install the second hard drive and mount it with two screws on each side 5 Connect the SATA and power cables to your hard drives Be careful not to damage any components and confirm that the cables are...

Страница 8: ...device is next restarted When not in use turn off the power For the hard drives to go into stand by with the Operating System we recommend using SATA II hard drives set up as RAID 0 RAID Setup Non RAI...

Страница 9: ...you do not need to change anything unless you prefer a different setup Turn on your Computer and start Windows Connect the Taurus and turn it on Let Windows search and install the driver automatically...

Страница 10: ...a Macintosh Before connecting the device setup the RAID using the switches at the back of the enclosure See page 2 and 6 for more details about the RAID setup If the drives have been pre installed and...

Страница 11: ...a 3rd party software running MS DOS we recommend you to format the drive using FAT32 Partitioning Formatting Be aware that this will destroy all your existing data on the drive so make sure you have a...

Страница 12: ...y Computer and choose Manage Select Disk Management Choose the drive you want to format and right click on it for further commands Choose New Partition Follow the Partition Wizard For Win2000 or WinXP...

Страница 13: ...the Disk Utility to format and create partitions on your external disk Select Disk Utility in the utilities folder Choose your external drive and format it according to your requirement For Mac OS X...

Страница 14: ...ower Tytech Technology Co Ltd all Rights Reserved The information contained in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable Macpower Tytech Technology assumes no responsibility for any errors c...

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