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LaCie D2 User Manual

LaCie D2 User Manual

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Contents How to use this Manual Foreword 1. Introduction 1.1 Icons Used in This Manual 1.2 What is SCSI? 2. Getting To Know Your LaCie AIT Drive 2.1 Minimum System Requirements 2.2 LaCie AIT Drive – Views 2.3 SCSI Cables and Connectors...

  • Page 2: How To Use This Manual

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive How to Use This Manual page 2 How to Use This Manual In the toolbar: Previous Page / Next Page Go to Previous View / Go to Next View Go to Contents Page / Go to Precautions Page On the page: Click on the text within the Contents page to jump to information on that topic.

  • Page 3: Foreword

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Foreword page 3 Copyrights Copyright © 2002 LaCie. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of LaCie.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 1. Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie AIT drive. LaCie tape drives deliver a cost-effective, reliable way to protect against devastating data loss, at home and in the office. Use your new tape drive in conjunction with effective tape rotation and a detailed disaster recovery plan to make your critical data virtually untouchable.

  • Page 5: What Is Scsi

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Manual Updates LaCie is constantly striving to give you the most up-to-date, comprehensive User’s Manuals available on the market. It is our goal to provide you with a friendly, easy-to-use format that will help you quickly install and utilize the many functions of your new device.

  • Page 6: Getting To Know Your Lacie Ait Drive

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 2. Getting to Know Your LaCie AIT Drive What can your LaCie AIT drive do? • Archive your database. • Backup proprietary information. • Store company files. 2.1 Minimum System Requirements Hardware Requirements: • Mac or PC equipped with SCSI card or built-in SCSI interface.

  • Page 7: Lacie Ait Drive - Views

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Getting to Know Your AIT Drive page 7 2.2 LaCie AIT Drive – Views Front View 1 – Cartridge Slot Door Insert your AIT cartridge in this door. As you insert the cartridge, the drive takes hold of it and loads it into the mechanism.

  • Page 8: Scsi Cables And Connectors

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Getting to Know Your AIT Drive page 8 6 – Lock Slot - This slot is used to connect a Kensington-type anti-theft system for maximum protection. Refer to your anti-theft system documentation for details on how to connect the lock.

  • Page 9: Setting Up Your Lacie Ait Drive

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 3. Setting Up Your LaCie U&I AIT Drive Connecting the AC Adapter To operate the drive, you must use the AC adapter supplied with it. Warning! Use only the AC adapter supplied with your LaCie drive. Using any other power cable may cause damage to the device and void your warranty.

  • Page 10: Scsi Card Verification

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive logical unit letter in Windows. Instead, this drive is managed entirely the application software, which displays a list of connected drives. As a result, when you want to backup your information, you will need to utilize the application software.

  • Page 11: Connecting The Drive To The Computer

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 3.1.4 - Connecting the Drive to the Computer 1) Power down your computer. Warning! Before connecting the drive’s power supply cable to the main power outlet, make sure that the drive is turned off! Failure to do so could lead to serious damage of the drive.

  • Page 12: Using Your Lacie Ait Drive

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 4. Using Your LaCie AIT Drive AIT Cartridge Handling Precautions Please take the following necessary precautions to ensure that your AIT cartridges stay in good condition, keeping your data safe and retrievable for years to come: •...
  • Page 13 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Warning! The Tape Log, which contains a history of the tape’s usage, will not be updated if the cassette is write-protected. The Tape Log may become inaccurate if the tape is used when write-protected, and the media warning cannot be relied upon to indicate that the cassette needs to be copied and replaced.
  • Page 14 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Figure 2 – Normal LED Patterns Busy Tape Status Figure 3 – Error LED Patterns Busy Tape Status Meaning There is no activity and no cassette in the LaCie AIT drive. No cassette loaded, but there is no IDE activity.
  • Page 15 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Cleaning the Heads The LaCie AIT drive features the Active Head Cleaner™ mechanism, which detects build-up and automatically removes debris, reducing the need for periodic head cleaning. A cleaning cassette may still be required, though, for severe cases of debris build-up that the drive cannot clean itself.

  • Page 16: Technical Information

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 5. Technical Information 5.1 User Advice When Using SCSI The following technical information relates to your LaCie AIT1 drive and gives some practical advice: Multiple SCSI Devices External devices must be powered on before booting the computer — even if they are not to be used. They MUST be left on until the computer has been shut down.
  • Page 17 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive LVD (Low Voltage Differential) – This latest addition to the SCSI interface, which became important with Ultra2 SCSI, combines all of the advantages of SE and HVD. LVD has rapidly become the de facto standard in high-performance SCSI.
  • Page 18 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive same SCSI chain, doing so will limit the performance of all devices on the chain to SE levels. An all-LVD chain will enable you to achieve the ultra-fast transfer rates that LVD has to offer. For more information on mixed SCSI chains, please refer to 8.

  • Page 19: Troubleshooting

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 6. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie AIT drive is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out where the problem is coming from. If you have gone through all of the points on the checklist and your drive is still not working correctly, please have a look at the FAQs that are regularly published on our Web site –...
  • Page 20 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive The Problem The drive is not recognized. Questions to Ask Is there a conflict with other device drivers or extensions? Does your computer’s configuration meet Check the minimum system requirements for use Requirements. with this drive?
  • Page 21 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive The Problem The drive is not recognized. The drive is working slowly. The LVD drive seems to be working slowly. Is the LVD drive connected to a Narrow Questions to Ask Are you using the correct SCSI driver?

  • Page 22: Contacting Customer Service

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 7. Contacting Customer Support Before You Call Technical Support • Read the manuals and review the Troubleshooting • Try to isolate the problem. If possible, make the drive the only external device on the CPU, and make sure that all of the cables are correctly and firmly attached.
  • Page 23 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Technical Support Help Hours - continued Japan • Monday through Friday 9 AM – 5PM Contact Us At: Technical Support: • +81-3-5733-2205 • support.jp@lacie.com Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland • Monday through Friday, 9 AM – 5PM...

  • Page 24: Warranty

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Customer Support page 24 7.1 Warranty LaCie warrants your drive against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the warranty period, LaCie will, at its option, repair or replace the defective hard drive.

  • Page 25: Appendix 1 - Scsi Questions And Answers

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 8. Appendix – SCSI Questions and Answers For the new user, SCSI terminology can be a little daunting. The table below was designed to help you get a clearer understanding of what the different SCSI names mean and their performance characteristics.
  • Page 26 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Sometimes, however, you may need to mix Narrow and Wide devices on a single SCSI channel. This is becoming increasingly common as the newest hard drives are Wide only, but many other kinds of devices are still produced for the Narrow interface.
  • Page 27 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Appendix - SCSI Q & A page 27 Can I mix Single-ended (SE) devices and Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) devices on the same SCSI chain? This is possible, because LVD devices are backwards compatible, meaning they can be used with SE buses. The LVD devices will simply be reduced to the maximum speed and cable length limitations of the SE bus.
  • Page 28 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Appendix – SCSI Q & A page 28 Where should I place the terminator? On external SCSI peripherals, the terminator must be enabled (internal) or placed (external) on the last device on the bus. Should I use passive or active terminators? We recommend that you use active terminators.

  • Page 29: Glossary

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Glossary page 29 9. Glossary Buffer – RAM cache that is faster than the data that is being delivered. Buffers are used so data may be stored and delivered to the receiving item as it is needed.
  • Page 30 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Glossary page 30 Interface – Junction between two items of hardware or software enabling them to exchange information by adopting com- mon physical or logical rules. Basically, this means 1,000 bytes, but it is actually 1,024 bytes.

  • Page 31: Health, Safety And General Precautions

    LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 11. Health, Safety and General Use Precautions Always follow the basic precautions listed below to use your LaCie drive safely and correctly. Respecting these guidelines will help to avoid the possibility of personal injury to yourself or others, as well as to prevent damage to your device and other computer equipment.

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