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Chapter 5 – Formatting Attached Drives
Figure 7
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Figure 5
Formatting Individual Drives (Not in a RAID Set)
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing)
new, individual drives connected to the Echo adapter using
Disk Utility under OS X Version 10.7; the process is nearly
identical under OS X Versions 10.6 and 10.8. If you intend to
create a OS X-formatted RAID set with the drives attached to
the Echo adapter, skip to “Formatting Drives into RAID Sets”
on the next page.
1. Turn on your storage system, and then turn on your
computer (with the Echo adapter connected). During
startup, one or more messages referring to unreadable
volumes will be displayed; click Initialize… to launch
Disk Utility. (Note that if you wait too long, the
messages will disappear, and Disk Utility will have to
be launched manually.) After Disk Utility launches,
click the Initialize button in each remaining message
window.
2. If it is not open, launch Disk Utility. Select one of the
drives you want to format by clicking the drive symbol
or the “name” of the drive; a set of tabs will appear in
the right pane. Note that all drives attached to the Echo
adapter may be identied in the information window
by their icon along with the “External” connection
type (Figure 5).
3. Click the Erase tab, and then click on the Format drop-
down menu to select the drive formatting option for
the volume (Figure 6).
4. Type a name for the volume in the Name eld, and
then click Erase (Figure 6).
5. When a dialog asking you to conrm you want to erase
the disk appears, click the Erase button to erase and
format the disk (Figure 7). If necessary, repeat steps 3
and 4 to format any other drives connected to the Echo
adapter. When erasing and formatting are complete,
close the Disk Utility application; you can now use your
drive(s).
icon of drives
connected to
adapter