G-Technology G-RAID2 Installation Manual - page 5

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 1 g-raid 2 ™ installation guide g-technology inc. Tel: (310) 449-4599 fax: (310) 449-4670 support@g-technology.Com p/n gr21207 reva table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Safety precautions 3. System requirements 4. What’s in the box 5. G-raid2 overview 6. Installing g-raid...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 4 1. Introduction thank you for purchasing g-raid2™ from g-technology, inc. The g-raid2 is the second generation g-raid that builds on the original g-raid design by incorporating the latest disk storage technology currently available – 7200 rpm sata ii hard drives each wi...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 5 5. G-raid 2 overview attention mac os x users g-raid2 is set up at the factory for use with mac os x systems. If you are running mac os x, g-raid will mount on the os x desktop right out of the box. If it becomes necessary to re-format g-raid2 for mac os x, see section ...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 6 7. Initializing g-raid2 g-raid2 is set up at the factory for use with mac os x systems. If you are running mac os x, g-raid2 will mount on the desktop right out of the box. If it becomes necessary to re-format g-raid2, follow the instructions below. • for mac os x insta...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 7 5. Click on the button. The dialog box shown below will appear. Click on the button to continue. 6. When partitioning is complete, g-raid2 will be displayed in the left-hand panel as shown below. 7. Exit the apple disk utility. 8. G-raid2 will be displayed on the deskto...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 8 4. Click on the button to continue. 5. The following window will appear. G-raid2 (disk 1) is now identified as basic and online. 6. Right-click on the disk 1 “unallocated” bar entry and select new partition… from the pull-down menu as shown below. 7. The window shown be...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 9 8. The following window will appear. Click on the button to continue. 9. The window shown below will appear. Click on the button to continue. This will create one large volume using all of the available space on g-raid2. Note: multiple partitions can be created on g-rai...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 10 12. The following window will appear. Click on the button to continue. 13. Windows will format the volume and then display the following window. Disk 1 is now identified as g-raid2 (e:). Exit the computer management console 14. G-raid2 will now be displayed as an avail...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 11 4. Click “erase” and your drive will be formatted to its full capacity as fat32. With this format, you will be able to read/write on both windows (2000/xp) and mac os machines. (note: you could format your drive on a windows machine fat32, however windows currently lim...

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    G-raid 2 product guide page 12 9. Optimizing data transfer rates g-raid2 can be connected to any mac or pc equipped with a firewire 400, firewire 800 or usb port. For optimal performance, g-raid2 should be connected via a firewire 800 port. For maximum performance on mac and pc computers that do not...