TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NOTICES 4
• Safety Notices 4 ________________________________________________________
• General Notices
• Capacity Disclaimer 4 ____________________________________________________
• Care and Handling 4
GENERAL 6
• Introduction 6___ ________________________________________________
• Box Contents 6
• Minimum System Requirements _____________________________________ 7
• Connectors and Rocport ID9 rear view 7
QUICK INSTALLATION 8
• How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive 8___________________
• Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB and SATA 9
INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 10
• Rocport ID9 as a bootable device 10 _________________________________________
• Disconnecting Your Drive 10
o PC 10 _______________________________________________________________
o Mac 11
• Reformatting Your Drive 11 ________________________________________________
o Reformatting via PC (Window based computers) 11
o Reformatting via Mac 11 _______________________________________________
• Important Note 11
• How to Daisy-Chain through FireWire ports to your Rocport ID9 Drive at one time 12__
PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING THE ROCPORT ID9 DRIVE ON A MAC OS 13
• Warning 13 _____________________________________________________________
• Important Notes 13
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ 14 _______________
PARTITIONING & FORMATTING the ROCPORT Drive on WINDOWS 2000, XP and VISTA 20
• Warning 20 _____________________________________________________________
• Important Notes 20
• Different ways to get to the Control Panel 21 __________________________________
• Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 23
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS 24 _______________