Notes on using Hard Drives in FireDriveŽ Enclosures

1. Setting Hard Drives as Master Drives
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Hard drives must be set as Master drives when used in
a FireDriveŽ drive enclosure. In some hard cases
this involves moving a jumper on the drive. In other cases
(such as older Western Digital drives), this requires
removing a jumper located on the hard drive. Hard drives
typically are marked with instructions on setting them
as Master or Slave drives; follow the instructions
provided by your drive's manufacturer.


2. Formatting Drives
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Lava Technical Support recommends installing an already-
formatted hard drive into the Kazan Drive Enclosure. New
drives may already be formatted by the manufacturer. FAT or
FAT32 formatted drives are the easiest to troubleshoot. Some
NTFS-partitioned drives occasionally may not work.

To externally format a hard drive in Windows, attach the
drive to a motherboard connector and format it with
FDISK.EXE before installing it into the external drive
enclosure.

If it is not possible to format the hard drive before
installing it into the drive enclosure (in the case of
notebook computers, for instance), it is possible
to format the hard drive inside the enclosure when using
Windows 2000 or XP.

   Windows 2000/XP formatting instructions:
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1) Go to "My Computer | Control Panel |
Administrative Tools | Computer Management |
Storage | Disk Management."

2) The "Write Signature and Upgrade Disk"
wizard will appear. If your drive was previously
formatted, go to step 6.

3) PREVIOUSLY UNFORMATTED DRIVES: In the "Select Disk
to Upgrade" window, choose the disk installed in the
Lava IDE drive enclosure.

4) PREVIOUSLY UNFORMATTED DRIVES: In the "Completing
the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk" wizard
click "Finish".

5) PREVIOUSLY UNFORMATTED DRIVES: The disk signature
will be identified as "Dynamic." Right-click on
"Revert to Basic Disk".

6) Right-click on the disk you have just created.
Choose "Create Partition."

7) In the "Create Partition" wizard specify the
partition type, partition size and, if requested,
assign a drive letter/path for the drive.

8) Choose "Format Partition" and select the
File System to use. Choose the "Perform Quick
Format" option.

9) In the "Completing the Create Partition" wizard
window, click "Finish".


3. Windows Error Messages
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At times Windows' Device Manager or the Properties dialog
box of the drive's System Tray icon will give a
"This device cannot start (Code 10)" error message or a
"This device is either not present, not working properly,
or does not have all the drivers installed (Code 28" error
message when attempting to access a drive in a FireDriveŽ.

First ensure that the power, data, and IDE cables are all
correctly and snugly attached. Check the power supply's LED
indicator is green to verify it is operating. If the
problem persists, ensure that the hard drive has been
formatted as described above.


4. Drive Data Capacity
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The limit on drive size for the IDE drive enclosure is
set by the limit of addressability in the industry-standard
ATA specification for hard drives generally. In the case
of the ATA interface implemented in the drive enclosure,
28 bits are given to the sector number interface between
the operating system, the BIOS, and the hard disk. A hard
disk can therefore have at most 2^28 or 268,435,456 sectors
of 512 bytes. The ATA interface, and the drive enclosure as
a result, has a maximum capacity of approximately 137.4 GB.


5. Western Digital drives
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Some new Western Digital drives do not work in
the FireDriveŽ enclosure. Western Digital drives
manufactured after November 15, 2001 should NOT have
this problem.


6. Windows 98SE Patch for IEEE 1394 Operation
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Users of Windows 98SE can download the following patch
to the operating system from Microsoft:

Windows 98 Second Edition 1394 Storage Supplement
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/
wurecommended/s_wufeatured/1394/Default.asp

Microsoft says:
The update installs a Safe Removal utility that allows you
to safely stop a Plug and Play storage device prior to
physically unplugging the device. This component also
includes an update for 1394 drivers to resolve issues
related to the surprise removal of peripheral devices.
Large performance improvements, in the order of 300%, have
been made over the implementation of 1394 storage drivers
in Windows 98 Second Edition.


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Lava Technical Support
Wednesday, March 27, 2002