User guide

GT 205
Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS 9 Users Quick Guide #610019-1.02
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6. Power up the GT 205.
7. Power up your computer.
If you are using a Macintosh computer the drive should mount
automatically on your desktop.
Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS 9 Users
Since your hard disk drive comes pre-formatted for Macintosh you
don’t need to format it on installation. If you should need to
re-initialize the disk, you can use the Erase Disk command in the Mac
operating system. This command will erase all the data on a volume
and create a new file system. Erase disk will not allow you to
re-partition a FireWire drive or create a different volume structure
than what was previously there.
If you need more functionality than what is supplied by Mac OS 9, get
a formatting and partitioning utility. Glyph recommends FWB’s Hard
Disk Toolkit or Charismac’s Anubis utility. These will allow you to
re-partition a disk and create multiple volumes, as well as format those
volumes. Directions for using these utilities will be included with
them.
Mac OS X users should use Disk Utility (supplied with the Mac OS X
operating system) to format and partition drives.
Re-initializing your drive using Erase Disk (Mac OS 9
Users)
Your new drive should have automatically mounted on the desktop as
a Glyph volume. We advise that you give it a recognizable name or
number on your desktop.