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    VP-9059 VP-9059 VP-9059 VP-9059 VP-9059 Fir eW ir e 1394, 3.5-inch P or table Exter nal Enc losur e USER MANUAL[...]

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    TRADEMARKS MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 98SE/NT/2000/Me/XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All of the third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners. FireWire 1394, 3.5” Protable External Enclos[...]

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    Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................. 4 1-1 Features ............................................................................... 4 1-2 Pa ckage Checklist ................................................................ 5 2. Hardware Installation ..................................[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 4 1. Introduction The VP-9059 is a high-performance 1394 to ATA/ATAPI native bridge with an embedded SBP-2 target solution. It supports a solution for link/transaction layer controller conforming to the IEEE Std 1394 (IEEE 1394-1995 and IEEE 1394.a) up to 400Mbps transfer rate. Compatibles with all 3.5” hard disk drives (HDDs)[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 5 1-2 Package Checklist The external enclosure VP-9059 package contains the following items: 1) The VP-9059 Case 2) A User’s Manual 3) One FireWire 1394 6-pin to 4-pin Converter Cable 4) One FireWire 1394 Cable 5) One +5V/+12V Power Adapter 6) One Power Adapter Power Cord 7) Screws bag If any of these items are missing or dama[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 6 2-3 Assembly 1. Remove the two retaining screws securing the upper case of the Enclosure to the rear face. 2. Carefully lift the rear of the case. Then, slide it away from the rear face of the front panel. 3. Remove the four screws retaining the hard drive cradle to the base unit of the Enclosure. 4. Lift out the cradle.[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 7 7. Locate the IDE port and power port situated on the rear face of the hard drive. Plug the IDE cable and power cable into the appropriate port ensuring that they fit securely. 5. Position the hard drive into the cradle. 6. Secure the hard drive into the cradle using the four retaining screws. 8. Position the cradle/hard drive[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 8 12. Finally, secure the upper case with the two retaining screws. 9. Secure the cradle with the four retaining screws. 10. Replace the upper case. Note Ensure that the groove in the upper case aligns with the slot in the base unit. 11. Slide the upper case forward ensuring that it abuts the rear face of the front panel.[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 9 2-4 Connect the Firewire 1394, 3.5” portable External Enclosure VP-9059 to Your Computer Step1: Boot-up your computer. Make sure the host adapter and driver are installed in your computer. Step2: Connect one 1394 connector end of the FireWire 1394 cable into the 1394 Port of your External Enclosure VP-9059. Step3: Connect th[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 10 3. Drivers Installation 3-1 Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Step1: If you are plugging the FireWire 1394 External Drive into your computer for the first time, the system will detect a FireWire 1394 Storage Device and install the [IEEE 1394 Storage Device] from system files automatically. Step2: Double click on [MyComputer]. A new drive[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 1 1 3-2 Mac OS 10.1X or Above 1. This FireWire 1394 External Drive is supported by IEEE 1394 Storage Support Mac OS 10.1X or above. You do not need to install any drivers. 2. When you plug this external Hard Disk into the 1394 port of your Mac computer, the mass storage volume should automatically appear on the desktop in a few [...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 12 4-2 Disconnect the FireWire 1394 External Enclosure VP-9059 from Computer 4-2.1 Windows 98: Step1: Double click the green Unplug or Eject hardware icon in system tray and click the drive that you want to remove and click on [STOP]. Step2: When the system prompts ‘Confirm device to be stopped’, click [OK]. When the green a[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 1 3 Step3: Wait a few seconds until the system prompts “You may safely remove this device”. Then, disconnect the FireWire 1394 External Drive from the computer. 4-2.3 Mac OS 10.1X or Above When disconnecting your FireWire 1394 External Drive from a Mac computer, first close all windows and quit all running applica- tions tha[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 14 5. Partitioning the External Hard Dis k 5-1 Partition Under Windows 98/ME Boot-up the computer into Windows 98/ME. Next, connect your external Hard Disk Drive to the 1394 port. There are two methods to partition and format your external Hard Disk Drive. Method 1 Step1: Click on [Start], select [Control Panel] in [Settings], d[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 1 5 Step3: If FDISK quits without any message, go back to the Windows 98 screen, disconnect the external Hard Disk and re-boot the computer. Reconnect the external HDD and go back to Step 1 to proceed. Step4: For the first screen of FDISK, answer the question: Do you want to enable large disk support? [Y] if you want to build a [...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 16 Step6: In the [Change Current Fixed Disk Drive], type the disk drive num- ber that is assigned to the external Hard Disk. Step7: Go back to [FDISK OPTIONS] screen, Now you can create or delete a partition of the external Hard Disk. Step8: After you finish FDISK, go back to the Windows screen, discon- nect and then reconnect t[...]

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    VP-9059 USER MANUAL 1 7 Step2: Click on [Disk Management]. All connected disk drives will be listed. Find the external Hard Disk that you added and to the right of the disk, view the status of the partitions of this disk drive. You can create a new or delete an existing partition by right-clicking on this area. Step3: Right-click on the partition s[...]