Glyph GT 050 - Manual (Page 12)

GT 050
Preparing Your Drive for Use: Mac OS 9 Users Quick Guide #610012-1.04
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Connect the power cable to the back of the GT 050. Plug the
three-prong plug into an appropriate power receptacle, preferably
with surge and spike protection.
3. Connect the FireWire cable.
Plug one end of the FireWire cable into your computer’s FireWire
port, and the other into the back of the GT 050. The two ports
provide the same function, so it doesn’t matter which one you use.
4. Power up the GT 050.
5. Power up your computer.
If you are using a Macintosh computer the drive should mount
automatically on your desktop. You can now start using your GT 050.
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
yourself 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.