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Owner ’ s Manu al OWC Mercury Elite - AL Pro mini[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL P ro mini T able of Con tents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT S 1.1.1 Mac Requirements 1.1.2 PC Requirements 1.2 P A CKAGE C ONTENTS 1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1.4 PORT VIEW & CABLE CONNECTIONS 1.5 DET AILED VIEW 1.5.1 LED Indicator 2 SY STEM SETUP 5 APPENDIX 6 CUST OMER SERVICE 6.1 BEFORE CONT A CTING CUSTOMER SERVICE 6.[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL P ro mini Chapter 1 - Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 System Requiremen ts 1.1.1 Mac Requirements •Minimum PowerPC G4 CPU , 128MB RAM •eSA T A interface, Mac OS X 10.3 or later •Fir eWire interface, Mac OS X 10.2 or later •USB 2.0 interface, Mac OS X 10.2 or later 1.1.2 PC Requirements •Minimum 500MHz I ntel P entium[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 1 - Introduction Cable Connections: The OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini has multiple int er faces to work with any computer syst em. ➀ eSA T A P ort - The utmost in speed. If you ’ re trying to make your OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini the fastest it can be , attach an eSA T A cable to this port. ➁ USB min[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 2 - System Setup 2 SY STEM SETUP 2.1 Computer C onnections The OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini is desig ned to bus power using the Fir eWire 800, or USB 2.0 connection from your c omputer . If you choose to use the eSA T A interface, connect both the F ireWire (either 800-800 or 800-400) and eSA T A cables to y[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3 FORMA TTING 3.1 Forma tting your OWC Mer cur y Elite -AL Pro mini on a Ma- cintosh with Mac OS X Open the Disk Utility application, which is located in /Applications/Utilities Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 320.07 GB OWC device. Click on t[...]
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Once you ’ve selected the OWC device, you will notic e the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “Erase” tab in this picture. Y ou then need to name the volume that you want to f ormat, and erase it. Name the volume as you want, choose the Volume F ormat pulldown (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is default), and click the Era[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting Click the erase button to conrm you wish t o erase the disk. After a few moments, the er ase command will complete and the OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini volume will moun t on your desktop. Y ou can quit Disk Utility, y ou’ re all set! ➄ ➃[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.2 Removing the GUID Partition Scheme Only for XP , 2000, ME and earlier . (XP 64-BIT , V ista & W indows 7 can continue to the next section) ➆ T ype exit and hit enter . ➇ Close the command prompt window . Y ou may no w proceed with formatting the driv e. Y our new OWC Mercury Elite-A[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting 3.3 Forma tting your OWC Mer cur y Elite -AL Pro mini on Win- dows 2000 and la ter Instructions for other operating systems can be found at http://www .macsales.com/format . ➀ With the drive c onnected to the computer and powered on, right click on the “ My Com - puter” icon and selec t ?[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➃ Your drive will appear similar to how Disk 1 does below. Notice that the space on the lower right reads as “Unallocated.” Right click in this space and choose “New Partition.” ➄ The “New P ar tition Wizard” will launch. Click “Next ” to con - tinue. ➅ Specify your partit[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➇ If you like, you can specify the drive letter designation f or your new drive . O therwise, one will automatically be assigned. Click “Next. ” ➈ Before y ou can use the drive, it must be formatted . On most systems running Win - dows 2000 or later , it is advisable to specify the l[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting ➀➀ Once you have nished with the formatting wizard, y ou will see that your new drive (represen ted as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “F ormatting. ” T his should only take a couple of min- utes if you chose the quick format option. ➀➁ Af ter a mo- ment or t[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 3 - F ormatting Using your new S torage Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive takes the guesswork out of sharing les. Whether you are transf erring les between home and the oce, a class room lab and y our dorm r oom or even on the same computer , MacDrive makes it painless. In fact, you ’ll hardly[...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting & Tips 4 TROUBLESHOO TING & TIPS 4.1 T roubleshooting Some of the most simple problems can be traced to pow er , or connectivity issues. V erify that your cables (both ends!) are properly plugged into the comput er and storage solution. If they are, and the stor age solution is sti[...]
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Optional AC Adapter While the OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini series is designed t o be bus pow - ered, there ar e some special situations where customers requir e a power adapter . If you want to purchase an A C adapter , they are av ailable from our Web site: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MOTGPWR/ Spe ci al n ote f or u [...]
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OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro mini Chapter 5 - Appendix 5.1 F AQ Q: How do I format m y storage solution? A: OWC has detailed instructions online for most popular operating sys- tems, located at: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/fwhdd.cfm Q: What le system should I choose when formatting m y drive? A: This will depend on how you want t o use th[...]
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•Read this manual and review Chapter 4: T roubleshooting & Tips . •T ry to conrm the problem is with the hard drive. If you hav e a second computer , move the enclosure to that system and verify that the solution does not function with that machine. •Visit our tech cen ter for more support suggestions, including F AQs. http://eshop .ma[...]
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Copyright ®2009-11 Other World Computing All Rights Reserved. Other W orld Computing’ s Limited Warranty is not transferable and subject to limitations. Copyrights: Copyright © 2009-10 Other W orld Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in an y form or by[...]