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DuoGB800 User Manual
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Connecting your DuoGB800
Once the hard drives have been installed, the DuoGB800 is ready to use. Just plug in the AC
power cord and a FireWire cable or USB2 cable to your host computer and you are ready to use
your drives.
Important note about USB2 and the DUOGB800:
Due to the constraints of USB2, only the hard drive that is set to Master will be available and
recognized by the host computer.
DRIVE FORMATTING.
Our drives are shipped preformatted with FAT-32 for
compatibility reasons. However, reformatting a drive is occasionally necessary. Formatting
is also required for new drives installed in the enclosure by the user. The following rules
apply for unformatted drives:
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WiebeTech installed drives are preformatted with DOS.
DOS is readable by virtually all operating
systems, including Mac OS 9 and X, and all recent versions of Windows (98SE, ME, 2K, XP). (DOS is
called FAT32 on Windows). All you need to do is power the unit up and plug it in via FireWire or USB.
Win98SE and WinME will require that the disk drive be checked as “removable” before it will be seen on the
desktop. This is done by navigating to the disk drives settings window in the device manager. See below
for instructions.
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Macintosh usage under OS 8.6 – OS 9.2.2.
When an unformatted drive is attached to either a FireWire or
USB port on the Mac, the Mac OS will ask you if you want to format the drive. Respond by supplying a
volume name and by selecting the formatting methodology. HFS+ (Macintosh Extended) will provide the
highest possible performance on the Mac; DOS format will provide cross platform compatibility. Warning:
the Mac OS occasionally will not reliably place a DOS format onto the disk drive, especially for capacities of
80GB and higher. This is determined by observing the indicated capacity after the format is complete. A
reformat utility is available from the MacOS under “Special
Erase Disk”. This allows reformatting of the
drive.
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Macintosh usage under OS X.
OS X will also ask to format the unformatted drive when it is first attached
to the computer. OS X also includes a disk utility appropriately entitled: “Disk Utility”. This utility has
several different features, including a drive integrity tester, a formatter and a drive erase menu. As of this
date (April, 2003) OSX does not mount PC formatted drives over 127GB