User guide

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Note 4: 4-pin FireWire connection. I
f
your computer provides only a 4-pin FireWire port, you can use the included
9
-pin-to-4-pin bilingual FireWire cable to connect to that computer port. Connect one end o
f
the bilingual (9-pin-to-4-
p
in) cable to an o
p
en FireWire 400
p
ort on
y
our com
p
uter and connect the other end of the bilin
g
ual cable to either
one o
f
the FireWire 800 ports on your Quad Inter
f
ace Drive. This connection will be only at FireWire 400 speeds
.
Note 3: USB or FireWire or eSATA un
d
er Mac OS X 10.2. Mac OS X version 10.2 wi
ll
not mount any sing
l
e FAT32
-
f
ormatted (MS-DOS) partition greater than 128GB. To work around this OS limitation, you may partition the drive into
s
maller FAT32
p
artitions, or
y
ou ma
y
reformat the drive to HFS+ format
.
N
ote 2: USB un
d
er Mac OS 9.2.x. Mac OS versions 9.2.x
d
o not su
pp
ort USB 2.0 Hi-S
p
ee
d
mo
d
e. For t
h
ese Mac OS versions
th
e
d
rive wi
ll
operate on
l
y at USB 1.1 spee
d
s.
Note 1: USB under Windows. I
f
y
ou are usin
g
a USB 1.1
p
ort on
y
our Windows com
p
uter, the
f
ollowin
g
cautionar
y
note
ma
y
a
pp
ear on
y
our
d
is
pl
a
y
: Hi-S
p
ee
d
USB Device
pl
u
gg
e
d
into non-Hi-S
p
ee
d
USB
h
u
b
. T
h
is
d
oes not in
d
icate a
p
ro
bl
em
because the drive is compatible with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports. Simply close the message and proceed. However, in
t
his case the drive will o
p
erate onl
y
at USB 1.1 s
p
eeds
.
Note 5: eSATA. Though the eSATA inter
f
ace standard provides
f
or “hot-plugging” o
f
the drive, some computers may
not follow the standard
p
recisel
y
. If
y
ou fi nd that
y
our drive does not mount after attachin
g
to a com
p
uter that is
powere
d
on, t
h
en s
h
ut
d
own t
h
e computer, attac
h
an
d
power on t
h
e
d
rive, an
d
t
h
en
b
oot up your computer
.