Lennox Hearth D2 manual

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    Contents page 1 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Contents How to use this Manual 2 Foreword 3 1. Introduction 4 1.1 Icons Used in This Manual 4 1.2 What is SCSI? 5 2. Getting T o Know Y our LaCie AIT Drive 6 2.1 Minimum System Requirements 6 2.2 LaCie AIT Drive – Views 7 2.3 SCSI Cables and Connectors 8 3. Setting Up Y our LaCie AIT Drive 9 3.1 Installing[...]

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    How to Use This Manual page 2 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive How to Use This Manual In the toolbar: On the page: Click on the text within the Contents page to jump to information on that topic. Click on any red text to automatically jump to more information about that topic. Printing: While optimized for onscreen viewing, the pages of this manual are form[...]

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    Foreword page 3 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Copyrights Copyright © 2002 LaCie. All rights reser ved. 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 other wise, without the prior written consent of LaCie. Tr a demarks Apple, Mac [...]

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    Introduction page 4 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 ef fective tape rotation and a detailed disaster recover y [...]

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    Introduction page 5 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. If your manual does[...]

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    2. Getting to Know Y our LaCie AIT Drive What can your LaCie AIT drive do? • Archive your database. • Backup proprietar y information. • Store company files. 2.1 Minimum System Requirements Hardware Requirements: • Mac or PC equipped with SCSI card or built-in SCSI interface. System Requirements: • Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, and OS 10.x • Windows[...]

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    Getting to Know Y our AIT Drive page 7 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 2.2 LaCie AIT Drive – Views Front View 1 – Car tridge Slot Door Insert your AIT car tridge in this door . As you inser t the cartridge, the drive takes hold of it and loads it into the mechanism. 2 – Eject Button Press this button to eject a cartridge. Do not attempt to eject the [...]

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    Getting to Know Y our AIT Drive page 8 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 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. 7 – Rackmount Grooves - For mounting your drive with the rackmount kit (sold separately). 8 [...]

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    Setting Up Y our LaCie AIT Drive page 9 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 3. Setting Up Y our LaCie U&I AIT Drive Connecting the AC Adapter To operate the drive, you must use the AC adapter supplied with it. Wa r ning! 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[...]

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    Setting Up Y our AIT Drive page 10 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. For guidance on application software that ca[...]

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    Setting Up Y our AIT Drive page 11 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 3.1.4 - Connecting the Drive to the Computer 1) Power down your computer . Wa r ning! 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. 2) Connect your drive’ s [...]

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    Using Y our AIT Drive page 12 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 4. Using Y our LaCie AIT Drive AIT Car tridge Handling Precautions Please take the following necessar y precautions to ensure that your AIT cartridges stay in good condition, keeping your data safe and retrievable for years to come: • Use the cassettes only in temperatures ranging from 41 ∞ [...]

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    Using Y our AIT Drive page 13 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Wa r ning! The T ape Log, which contains a history of the tape’ s usage, will not be updated if the cassette is write-protected. The T ape 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 c[...]

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    Figure 2 – Normal LED Patterns Busy T ape Status Meaning There is no activity and no cassette in the LaCie AIT drive. No cassette loaded, but there is no IDE activity . A cassette is being loaded and the drive is checking it. A cassette is being loaded. The drive has determined that the cassette is write-protected. A cassette is loaded and is bei[...]

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    Using Y our AIT Drive 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 canno[...]

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    T echnical Information page 16 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 5. T echnical 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[...]

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    T echnical Information page 17 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive L VD (Low V oltage Dif ferential) – This latest addition to the SCSI interface, which became impor tant with Ultra2 SCSI, combines all of the advantages of SE and HVD. L VD has rapidly become the de facto standard in high-perfor mance SCSI. Its benefits include increasingly lower cost, more a[...]

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    T echnical Information page 18 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive same SCSI chain, doing so will limit the perfor mance of all devices on the chain to SE levels. An all-L VD chain will enable you to achieve the ultra-fast transfer rates that L VD has to offer . For more information on mixed SCSI chains, please refer to 8. Appendix – SCSI Questions and Answe[...]

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    Tr oubleshooting page 19 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 6. T roubleshooting 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[...]

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    Tr oubleshooting page 20 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions The drive is not recognized. Is there a conflict with other device Contact LaCie T echnical Suppor t. drivers or extensions? Does your computer’ s configuration meet Check section 2.1 Minimum System the minimum system requirements for use Requirements[...]

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    Tr oubleshooting page 21 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions The drive is not recognized. Are you using the correct SCSI driver? Make sure you are using the most recent drivers supplied by the manufacturer of the SCSI card. Contact the SCSI card manufacturer or LaCie T echnical Suppor t for more details. The driv[...]

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    Contacting Customer Suppor t page 22 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 7. Contacting Customer Suppor t Before Y ou Call T echnical Support • Read the manuals and review the T roubleshooting section. • T r y 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 firml[...]

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    Contacting Customer Suppor t page 23 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive T echnical Suppor t Help Hours - continued Japan • Monday through Friday 9 AM – 5PM Contact Us At: T echnical Support: • +81-3-5733-2205 • support.jp@lacie.com Sweden, Nor way , Denmark and Finland • Monday through Friday , 9 AM – 5PM Contact Us At: T echnical Support: • (0)[...]

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    Customer Suppor t page 24 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 7.1 W arranty 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 [...]

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    Appendix - SCSI Q & A page 25 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 per formance characteristics. Before you read the chart, let’ s defi[...]

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    Appendix - SCSI Q & A 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. The best solution for mixing Wide and Narrow [...]

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    Appendix - SCSI Q & A page 27 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Can I mix Single-ended (SE) devices and Low-V oltage Differential (L VD) devices on the same SCSI chain? This is possible, because L VD devices are backwards compatible, meaning they can be used with SE buses. The L VD devices will simply be reduced to the maximum speed and cable length limi[...]

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    Appendix – SCSI Q & A page 28 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Where should I place the terminator? On external SCSI peripherals, the terminator must be enabled (internal) or placed (exter nal) on the last device on the bus. Should I use passive or active terminators? We recommend that you use active terminators. Passive, single-ended terminators are [...]

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    Glossar y page 29 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive 9. Glossar y 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. Bus – Electronic links that enable data to flow between the processor , RAM and extension cables (peripherals). Byte – A seq[...]

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    Glossar y page 30 LaCie d2 SCSI AIT Drive Interface – Junction between two items of hardware or software enabling them to exchange information by adopting com- mon physical or logical rules. KB (Kilobyte) – Basically , this means 1,000 bytes, but it is actually 1,024 bytes. KB/s – Kilobytes per second. A means of measuring throughput. MB (Meg[...]

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    Precautions page 31 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 injur y to yourself or others, as well as to prevent damage to your device and other com[...]