LaCie Skwarim User Manual - page 13
LaCie Skwarim
Using Your LaCie Skwarim
User Manual
page 13
3.1.2. Mac Users
✦
Mac OS 9.x – Install and use LaCie Silverlining Pro, which is
included with your drive.
✦
Mac OS 10.x – Use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is
native to the operating system.
For instructions on installing and using Silverlining Pro, please refer
to the Silverlining manual, located on your LaCie Storage Utilities
CD, in PDF format.
Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10.x
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase anything that is on the
hard drive. Therefore, if you have information that you want to pro
tect or continue to use, backup this information before performing
these steps.
1. Connect the drive to the computer via the USB 2.0 port. Once
the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the Menu Bar, and
open Go. From the Go menu, click on Applications.
2. In the Applications menu, open the Utilities folder, and then
doubleclick Disc Utility from the Utilities folder.
3. The Disc Utility window will open (
Fig. 08
). In the left side of
the window will be a list of the available hard disk drives. You
should see a volume that represents your internal hard drive,
and one that reads LaCie.
4. Select the LaCie drive, and then click on the Partition tab.
5. From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the number of par
titions you want to divide the drive into by clicking on the pull
down menu starting with Current (Mac OS 10.x gives you the
option of dividing the drive into at most 8 partitions). You can
customize the size of the partitions by using the slide bar be
tween the partitions in the Volume Scheme: area.
6. In the Volume Information section, create a name for each
partition, choose the volume format (Mac OS Extended, Mac
OS Standard or UNIX File System) and the volume size.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please refer to section
4.2. File System For-
mats
, for a more detailed discussion on the differences be tween the
two systems.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Apple recommends that unless you have a
specific reason to use the UNIX File System (UFS), you should use the
Mac OS Extended format since it provides a more familiar experi
ence to Macintosh users.
Fig. 08