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FIREWIRE 800
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S A T T E N T I O N Thank you and congratulations for choosing a product fro m USER SAFETY the PikaOne range. This product has all the latest innovations • Read this user’s manual carefully and follow the pr o c e d u re in technology and is sure to meet your r e q u i rements. Please indicated to install your equipment. note that when we refer in this manual to your FLYCASE pro- • Do not open the device and do not try to disa
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S A T T E N T I O N • Do not use any benzene-based product, solvent, deter g e n t p rovisions 15 of the FCC regulations. Use of the equipment or other chemical product to clean the device. This type of pro- is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device must duct will discolour and spoil the materials used for the case and not cause harmful interf e rence; and (2) this peripheral must the front panel. Simply wipe
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S C O N T E N T S IN T R O D UC T I O N 5 Présentation 5 Main characteristics 5 Unpacking 6 H A R D WA R E IN ST A L L AT I O N 7 Leads and connections 7 LED and operating lights 7 Start-up procedures 8 S O F T WA R E I N ST A L L AT I O N 9 Installation with MAC OS 9 Installation/Desinstallation with Windows 9 PIKAFORMAT software 10 To format your FlyCASE 13 PIKABACKUP software 13 A N N EXE S 18 FIREWIRE Technology (IEEE-139
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S I N T R O D U C T I O N P R E S E N TA T I O N MA I N C H A RA C T ER I ST IC S • • The PikaOne FlyCASE PRO is an external storage peripheral The main characteristics of the FlyCASE PRO are: integrating the latest FireWire B (800) interfacing technology. • FireWire 800 and 400 ports. The FlyCASE PRO is equipped with two 3,5" standard format • Storage capacities up to 800 GB**. h a rd disks connected in RAID 0* to reach high
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S I N T R O D U C T I O N MI N IM UM SY ST EM C O N F IG U RAT I O N S R EQ UI R ED FireWire 400 (400 Mb/s) System FireWire 800 ( 800 Mb/s) System PC • Pentium II 350 Mhz or higher -compatible processor, • Pentium III 350 Mhz or higher compatible processor, with a FireWire/IEEE 1394/iLink/DV with FireWire 800/IEEE 1394b interface card. interface card (SBP-2 compatible). • 64MB RAM or higher. • 128MB RAM or higher. • Windows 9
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S H A R D WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N L EA D S A N D C O N N EC T IO N S • DIFFERENT FIREWIRE CONNECTORS Power Supply connector EXISTING IN THE MARKET On/Off Switch iLink/DV connector (4 points) Firewire iEEE 1394 connector (6 points) FireWire 800 connectors (9 points) Firewire iEEE 1394 connector (6 points Fan FireWire 800 connector (9 points) REAR VIEW OF THE FLYCASE PRO DIFFERENT CABLES SUPPLIED WITH YOUR FLYCASE PRO At th
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S H A R D WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N S TA RT- UP P R O C ED UR E • CAUTION REMARK B e f o re starting the installation pr o c e d u re, refer to appendices, to learn Your FlyCASE PRO has 2 Fir e Wi re 800 connectors. The second connec- about the limitations and possibilities that Fir e Wi re interface of f e r tor allows you to chain another Fire Wi re peripheral, which will be you. Also refer to paragraph (minimum r e q u i
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N I N S TA L L AT I O N WI T H MA C O S I N S TA L L AT I O N / U N I N S TA L L AT IO N • • WI TH WIN D O WS Follow the start-up procedure (page 8), • Before connecting your FlyCASE PRO to your Macintosh, you INSTALLATION must install the "PikaFORMAT software. P i k a F O R M AT enables you to format, r e f o rmat, configure or • PikaFORMAT is a program that will allow you to format, r e
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N CAUTION T HE PI KA F O R MAT SO F T W A R E • a. No special driver is necessary with Windows 98SE and Higher ver- s i o n . This software will enable you to simply and graphically for m a t , b. For more information on the use of "PikaFORMAT", refer to next r e - f o rmat, partition and r e - p a rtition your FLYCASE in several chapter. MAC or PC Partitions. c. “PikaFormat” will format yo
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N To Size and modify a partition. on the far left of the screen) and type in the size required for You have three possibilities for partitioning your disk: this partition. Then on the 2nd, etc. • You can use the drop-down menu “DIVIDE THE DISK INTO • You can also adjust your partitions using your mouse. …”, which will divide the disk into equal-sized partitions. • After dividing your disk,
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N - Click on the right side of the square of the partition to be modified and adjust the size of the first partition by keeping the left button of your mouse pressed down and moving it to the left (screen 1). The size of your partition will be displayed in real time in the bottom left-hand corner of the square. When Screen 1 you release the mouse (screen 2), information on the new size will
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N T O FO R MAT YO U R FLY C A S E PIK A B A C KUP SO F TW A R E • • TO FORMAT YOUR FLYCASE I N T R O D U C T I O N • During any operation when you click on "FORMAT", a num- The PikaBACKUP program will enable you to make a back up ber of warning messages will appear warning you of the conse- your internal disk or one of its directories to a FlyCASE with quences for your existing data. Curren
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N I N S TA L L AT I O N / U N I N S TA L L AT I O N HO W T O B A CK UP • • O F PIK A B A C KUP CHOOSING THE SOURCE I N S TA L L AT I O N A source is a volume or a directory that you want to back up An automatic installation program for PikaOne software and onto your FlyCASE. drivers, “INSTALL.EXE”, is available on the “PikaOne Software To choose the source, use one of the following two met
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N CHOOSING THE DESTINAT I O N The arrow fills up andempties during backup To choose the destination of the backup, simply use the "Des- tination " drop-down menu, which lists all the FlyCASEs connec- ted to your PC "Destination " drop-down menu The quantity of directories and files copied Indicates time spentand remaining During subsequent backups, only modified files in the source will be
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N I N F O R M ATION ABOUT THE BACKUP NAME OF SOURCE VOLUME Name of the volume used as the source for the backup SOURCE PATH Original path of the backup in the source volume NAME OF DESTINATION VOLUME Name of the volume used as the destination for the backup DESTINATION PATH Path of the backup in the destination volume START DATE Date on which the backup started END DATE Date on which the b
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S S O F T WA R E I N S TA L L AT I O N OPTION 2 Automatic launch every time a FlyCASE already containing RESTORING FILES BACKED UP ON THE FL Y C A S E a backup is connected: On your FlyCASE you will find the directories of every backup, If the FlyCASE plugged into your PC contains at least one bac- s o rted by date. Inside each of them is the source dir e c t o ry with kup, the application will be displayed and will allow you
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S A N N E X E S F IR E WIR E ® T EC HN O L O G I E, I EE E 139 4 BENEFITS OF 1394 • Applications that benefit from IEEE 1394 include nonlinear The 1394 digital link standard was conceived in 1986 by tech- (digital) video presentation and editing, desktop and commer c i a l nologists at Apple Computer, who chose the trademark 'Fire- publishing, document imaging, home multimedia, and perso- W i re', in r e f e rence to its speed
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S A N N E X E S A D VI C E F O R U SE With Windows 98SE • You will find below some advice for use and technical expla- You can only disconnect your FlyCASE PRO when: nations about how your FlyCASE PRO works, as well. • The red disk access light is off. • When the computer is not accessing the FlyCASE PRO hard ADVICE ON STA RTING UP YOUR FLYCASE PRO disk. • After start-up of the system, the power status LED should • When no fil
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F L Y C A S E P R O E X T E R N A L S T O R A G E P E R I P H E R A L S A N N E X E S T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G • How can I format the FlyCASE PRO in NTFS format ? The PIKAFORMAT software formats your drive in FAT32 to keep compatibility with the dif f e rent versions of Windows. The NTFS f o rmat is stronger and more reliable than the FAT32 for m a t . This format is recognized by Windows XP and Windows NT and 2000 only. 2. Click on the command “unplug or eject har d w a re” and click So, u
