LaCie d2 Serial ATA User Manual

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3. Installing Your LaCie Drivepage 14LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATAUser’s Manual3.2. Connecting The Drive To Your Computer3.2.1. Mac UsersSATA1324Serial ATA CableAfter following the steps in 3.1. Connecting The Power Supply,power on the drive by pressing the On/Off button on the frontof the drive.Connect the Serial ATA cable into the Serial ATA port on theback of the LaCie d2 Hard Drive.Connect the other end of the Serial ATA cable into an availableSerial ATA port* on your computer.Important Info: In order to have external Serial ATAfunctionality, your computer must be equipped with a third-party or built-in Serial ATA PCI card with external connectors,such as the LaCie Serial ATA PCI Card.Tech Note: For more information about Serial ATA, please see sections:• 2.4. Cables And Connectors• 5.3. Optimizing Data Transfers• 7. Serial ATA Questions & AnswersYour drive should appear on your desktop. It may take a fewseconds for your computer to recognize the drive and for it toappear on the desktop.Your LaCie d2 Hard Drive will now be ready for use. You canthen use the formatting and partitioning capabilities in theApple Disk Utility to configure your hard drive system. Pleaserefer to 4.1. Formatting Your LaCie Drive –Mac Users for moreinformation.Tech Note: If your drive does not appear on the desktop, you may need to restart your computer, with yourLaCie drive still turned on, to mount the drive. Serial ATA is a new technology, and you must be running 10.3.xor later to have hot-plug support (please see the Tech Note in section 2.1. Minimum System Requirements formore information).