eBOX f Manual - DAT OpticeBOX-F Manual – Version 1.0 Page 14 Modify and detach HDD since PC is running TERA TOWER has unique method to modify and detach HDD when computer is running

eBOX-F Manual – Version 1.0 Page 1

eBOX-F FIREWIRE

Manual


Introduction

Thank you for choosing eBOX-F. It is an easy-to-use storage solution that allows a system to access terabyte of data.

Use safely - Please follow the manual

Read all of these instructions before using - In this section, it descript all notification and warming. It tries to prevent any injure and property damage to the

third person for improperly used - According to the description below - It may cause injured and degree of damage without obeying it

Warming

It means, It may cause person injured or damage because you do not follow the descriptions Notice It means, It may cause person injured or damage, because you do not follow the descriptions

Warming o Smoke, Burning smell, and Strange sound

Turn off the power when smoke, smell, and strange sound. Unplugged the power cord from the AC power outlet, bring your product for repairing or contact with your authorized dealer

o Please do not take out parts and modify machine It may cause electric shock when you doing this contact the retail outlet for maintenance, or contact the authorized dealer where you was purchased

o Do not let water or any object enter eBOX-F If water or any foreign object enters inside the chassis. Please turn off it and unplug the power cord Bring your product for repairing or contact with your authorized dealer

o Do not use this product near water and mist area Please do not use near kitchen, bathroom, and; mist area this might cause fire or system breakdown

o place your product on a flat and stable surface Place your product on a flat and stable surface; it might get injure by falling.

o Specify the admitted range of power This product should be operated from the type of power source indicated on the label.

o About the power line adapter line Please do not place any heavy objects on the power cord and lines, or do not place any metal parts to damage the lines and cause fire and electric shock Do not place this product where people can walk on the cord.

o When lightening, don’t handle the power line It might cause an electrical shock and fire

o Do not handle the machine with wet hands Do not handle the machine with wet hands. Doing this might cause an electrical shock and fire

Notice o The notification for placing

Please do not place this unit to the any of the places below. This may cause fire, electric shock or breakdown problem - Near heater (warming stove, iron, radiator) - Do not place or store the machine near heaters or other hot appliances, in any location exposed to extremely

high or low temperatures high humidity or dusty locations - Do not expose the product directly to the sun

o Remove power cord lines when you are not using for a long term Remove and put is safe place power cord AC adapter, if you are not using for a long time

o Switch off and unplug the power cord and lines before moving machine Please unplug all the lines since moving machine. Keep off line disconnect

o Do not close to Children Children do not seat on the machine, it will get injure

o Please notice of static electricity This is a is a precision electronic equipment; It may cause static electricity


Features Install up to eight of 3.5�HDD. Compatible with any brand HDD and also different capacity. Change mode by dipswitch

Restriction Points � Not support OS system � Since using this product causes directly and indirectly damage or data missing; company

generally is not responsible � This product does not using for these purpose blow: Medical equipment atomic equipment

aerial- cosmic equipment etc. mechanical equipments; and must high dependency mechanical equipments generally is not responsible under this environment use.

� It may cause error since it closes to Radio, Television, Audio and so on; Please leave them away from your product

� Since this product (include driver)is use within Japan; If using outside of Japan, we apology without responsibility

� Machine around 3.5 inches / E-IDE hardware purpose CD-ROM is not included the range of supporting

Before Using � About the content of user’s guide; it could be modify in the future without informing � About the content of user’s guide; If you having any questions or discover any mistakes;

please contact our service center � Windows as Microsoft Corporation registered trade mark � Macintosh as Apple Computer , Inc registered trade mark � For improving; it could be modify any detail without informing Specification Model �eBOX-F Products �TERA TOWER Interface �IEEE 1394a/b Firewire FW Port �A and B Weight �5.7KG Dimension �width 150 � × high 340 � × depth 340 �


Temperature �Temperature 5~35 degree humidity 20~80% HDD is not including Product contents � TERA TOWER � 2 FW cable � AC cord � turnbuckle for HDD× 32 � manual � Warranty�back of the

manual� Parts

Correspond Machines Correspond OS

FIREWIRE connection ● Macintosh Power Macintosh G5 Mac mini eMac iMac Power Book G4�iBook G4 �Only limit with FIREWIRE2.0 interface standard type� Supporting does not include standard device FIREWIRE interface It does not guarantee to operate in any condition

TERA TOWER

Front Panel Back Panel

Front Shutter

Power Sleep Power/access LED Sleep LED

FW port

Manual Screw

Power source jack

Source switch


● Windows Device FIREWIRE surface connection of PC / AT Compatibles�When using FIREWIRE mode� �Recommend Intel chip set loading Pentium300MHz / Main memory 128MB more Correspond OS�Windows2000 / Windows XP

It can not operate within below�Windows95 / Windows98SE / Windows3.x / Windows NT / Windows Me Windows98 manufacture before selling out; has the possibility but act unusually because of the

FIREWIRE connection question The following machine has the unusual movement possibility, thus not in support object It does not guarantee to operate in any condition It may not compatible with particular machine or software

Correspond HDD�Correspond Ultra DMA mode of 3.5 inches E-IDE Specification HDD�Parallel ATA�serial ATA double Correspond

Serial ATA connects that is use additional SATA to IDE If you wan to connect ore than 2 of serial ATA hardware; please buy another SATA to IDE

Install methods Before connecting to the hardware

Warming Before connecting to the hardware; please unplug the power cord

When the power is on and computer is working; It may cause electric shock and breakdown problems

When connect to hardware, please be aware of static electricity It may cause machine breakdown from the static electricity remain on human body Before operating; Please do not touch any of the metals or please using a line to prevent static electricity Please to use screwdriver to install


Installing Hard Drive 1. Remove HDD tray from Tera Tower �When it’s only install one HDD on�HDD made by Western Digital�; please set as Single mode� [ Example] HITACHI made HDD

�Note�This is one of the example; Please according to your manual for actual setting

Connect with S-ATA hardware drive.

If necessary, please purchase S-ATA convert adapter�SATA to IDE�

When only install one, please set S-ATA covert adapter as Master.

When connect two S-ATA HDD ;Please set second S-ATA convert adapter as SLAVE

Please make sure you connect properly�


Note! Please be aware of hurt by HDD or Chassis

3�Unfasten the screws on the back of the TERA TOWER

4�Remove left side panel


When install two or more HDD; set upper HDD us Master and lower HDD as Salve. Please refer to the Diagram.

5�Remove front panel; and pull out the AC cable

And flat cable�Insert HDD in turn from up to down.

Please do not damage the cables The pins connector toward front

6�Press the rubbers on each side to fasten the HDD


7�Connect AC cable and flact cable to HDD Please connect properly incase of any damage.

8�Fasten left side panel.

Flat Cable

AC cable


Power switch on and off

�If auto power effective, Tera tower will automatically on when PC operating.

Sleep Mode

Press sleep button for 3 seconds, HDD and Fan will stop operating and Sleep Mode LED light

will be off. If data was been stored to one of HDD, the Sleep Mode LED light will be off. Please note if HDD temperature is under 400C, fan won’t operate.

Power ON Press once, power will turn on

Power OFF Press power for 3 seconds

Sleep button


Division and formation Note�When formatting, please logged on as the administrator Click “My Computer” and select�manage�, open Computer management�

On�computer management�, select�Disk management�

�Initialize and covert dist wizard� Click�NEXT� �Select Disk to Covert� Click�NEXT� �Complete the Initialized and covert Disk Wizard�

Click�Finish� Close the window.

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Click the right button on mouse

Mous


■ Disk partition If HDD shows “unallocated”, the HDD is not Formatting. Click the right button of mouse and open the Window, select�New Partition� �Welcome to New Partition Wizard� Click�Next�

�Select Partition Type� Select�Primary Partition� Select�Next� �Specify partition size� Select�Next�


�Assign Drive Letter or Path� Select �Assign the following drive letter “M”� Appear�Format Partition��windows Please follow the diagram to set up. �Capacity of disk Assign the capacity of disk �Rename the disk If the disk is not renamed, it will show”Volume” �Fast formatting It only can be use when HDD has been formatted. When all sets; Click�Next� �New Partition Wizard Finish� click�Finish�


Modify and detach HDD since PC is running TERA TOWER has unique method to modify and detach HDD when computer is running Use Windows of�Safely remove hardware� Click�Hardware Device�twice. Stop a Hardware Device and click�OK� Select�mass memory storage device� select�STOP� Appear�Save to remove hardware�window, click�OK� If install 2 or more HDD during standard mode, when remove one of HDD, others will be deleted.


Macintosh Usage Mac OS X is using Mac OS Standard driver �MacOS9.x doesn’t have to format in advance Mac OS is using OS Standard�Disk Utility� to format Start �Disk Utility� �Disk Utility�located at application� Utility It shows that can be formatted disk summary On the left side TERA TOWER shows GB Century � as the connected HDD capacity� Click any of TERA TOWER Shows the connected disk information Click the upper��Partition� Tab; It can change the disk of setting Volume mode �Select the disk amount that you need �It can divide of 8 Volume block �Shows divided condition of media Volume information �Volume information change;��Volume mode��is going to change the selected disk information� In��Volume mode��selects other disks; then change every disk setting Name �It can change the disk name that you want to make. If you don’t give a name, it shows Name unsetting Formatting


�Select the disk the you want to format�Like: Mac OS Standard�Mac OS extend�UNIX file management system�free capacity; please select Standard Mac OS Standard or Mac OS extend Size �Can change the desire for making size of the Volume Option �Make sure install the MacOS9 driver, then it will be install in driver of MacOS9 Divide �The selected disk divide by the same capacity Delete �Delete the selected disk Reduce �Reduce the last change After all decided then Click OK “Warming” Appears. Proceed making, please click ��Divide the disk��;If you want to delete it��After making operation, it will shows on the desk If you want to delete, please delete it in the Dock of Trash can �Within the condition of Standard mode to connect with plural HDD; If one of them delete, then it will delete all of the HDD

Troubleshooting Explain how to solve the most common error


Can not recognize

Try to do the action below Make sure all cables and AC cord has been connected properly Make sure power LED light is on. Make sure HDD S-ATA convert adapter setup properly

Can not operate OS Don’t support OS operation

Power LED light is on, but HDD doesn’t work Please make sure all cables connect properly if it connects beside provided cables, it may cause any damage. Therefore, please use provided cables

Transmission speed is slow If connect FIREWIRE1.1 interface, the speed will be 1MB/sec.

When Windows2000 XP is formatting; the dialog box appear�Unfinished formatting�;then it can not be formatted

Windows2000 XP can not format HDD over 32GB by FAT32 Please format by NTFS

When using different capacity brand HDD; can us still using combine mode� YES

─ Caution ─ 1. It is prohibit to reprint the part of the contents and all 2. The contents of this manual subject to change without notice. 3. Even though the content is written carefully; If notice there is some mistake or

omission; Please contact with us 4. Reference the result causes the influence, It is unrelated with3.then we are

apology for any responsible


If customer use improperly does not according to the content for operation; or if repairing and modifying besides the authorize company; and cause the damage problems. We are unable to be responsible; we are apology for

inconvenient

The logo and name are registered trademark of authorized company

This product version is for internal Japanese distribution only. It comes with drivers and manuals in Japanese. This version of our product will not work with other languages operating

System and we provide help support desk in Japanese only.

Warranty Guarantee items 1. This written guarantee in this book stipulated under the deadline and promise free maintenance; this is not

to limit the customer rights in laws 2. This limited warranty is given only to the original end-use/retail purchaser; it regards as warranty deadline

from the date that you purchase if you follow the notification on manual and use properly. It still happen any damage within warranty period; then it won’t cost you anything for repairing�Under the condition that it can not be repair; you may choose any product for instead� This warranty does not cover:

a. do not show the guarantee b. Omits the record in the written guarantee when you purchase it c. Because the fire, the earthquake, the flood, are struck by lightning the breakdown and the damage

the product d. Damage caused by another device or software used with this product e. Damage caused by improper installation, improper or abnormal use, misuse, neglect or accident f. When this product connects with our machine and cause breakdown g. Only occur in the specific machine which is different�compatibility problem � h. Violates the record to the instruction booklet application method and cause the damage i. It considers personal damage and modification j. Physical damage or modify by people to this product

3. You are responsible for the cost of shipping, packing product, and insurance (if you desire) You are also responsible for loss or damage to this Product in shipping

4. The company only responsible for maintenance the records on above�Whatever any violation; this is the only source to solve. We do not responsible for additional, indirect, special or direct damage�The company does not responsible for�benefit lose�during machine stop�customer reliance damage or switch property and equipment program re-design and so on

5. According to the period of maintenance; long term maintenance calculates from sending to the company until backing to Japan

6. The components keep within 3 years production; It can not request to repair after 3 years 7. This written guarantee no longer reissues, please keep properly 8. This warranty covers only warranty service within Japan

Warranty limitation purchase date

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Support CenterTEL 7145581808(10AM ~ 5 PM) FAX 7145583229 http://www.datoptic.com e-mail: [email protected]


Dealer Seal

For dealer Please give dealer seal on the warranty card�We can not accept free maintenance for not recording the purchase time�For customers This written guarantee no longer reissues, please keep properly�

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eBOX f Manual - DAT OpticeBOX-F Manual – Version 1.0 Page 14 Modify and detach HDD since PC is running TERA TOWER has unique method to modify and detach HDD when computer is running