Rocstor LANCER LX Manuel utilisateur

store your future

User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IMPORTANT NOTICES 4

•Safety Notices ________________________________________________________ 4

•General Notices

•Capacity Disclaimer ___________________________________________________ 4

•Care and Handling 4

GENERAL 6

•Introduction ___ ________________________________________________ 6

•Box Contents 7

•Minimum System Requirements _____________________________________ 8

•Connectors and Lancer rear view 8

QUICK INSTALLATION 9

•How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive ___________________ 9

•Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB and SATA 10

INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 11

•Lancer as a bootable device _____________________________________________ 11

•Disconnecting Your Drive 11

oPC _______________________________________________________________ 11

oMac 12

•Reformatting Your Drive ________________________________________________ 12

oReformatting via PC (Window based computers) 12

oReformatting via Mac _______________________________________________ 12

•Important Note 12

•How to Daisy-Chain through FireWire ports to your Lancer Drive at one time _____ 13

PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING THE LANCER DRIVE ON A MAC OS 14

•Warning _____________________________________________________________ 14

•Important Notes 14

•Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ _______________15

PARTITIONING & FORMATTING the LANCER Drive on WINDOWS 2000, XP, VISTA, 7 24

•Warning _____________________________________________________________ 24

•Important Notes 24

•Different ways to get to the Control Panel __________________________________ 25

•Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 27

•Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS _______________ 28

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TROUBLESHOOTING 33

•Troubleshooting for Macintosh computers _________________________________ 33

•Troubleshooting for PC Windows based computers 36

KNOWLEDGE BASE 38

•Lancer LX Unique Features ________________________________________ 38

•Specifications 38

•Introduction to Interfaces (ports) and Cables ________________________________39

oFireWire (IEEE 1394) 39

oUSB (Universal Serial Bus) ____________________________________________ 40

oSATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) ---

oComparison Chart __________________________________________________ 42

•Introduction to Formatting 43

oFile Allocation Table (FAT) and FAT 32 __________________________________ 43

oHFS Plus or HFS+ 44

LIMITED WARRANTY 45

TECHNICAL SUPPORT 49

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 49

•Trademarks __________________________________________________________ 49

•Copyrights 49

CONTACT INFORMATION 50

•Corporate Headquarters ________________________________________________ 50

•Technical Support / Return Authorization “RMA” 50

•Sales Info ____________________________________________________________ 50

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IMPORTANT NOTICES

Safety Notices

•The warranty is void if an unauthorized person attempts and/or repairs the hard disk drive.

•Read all Manuals and instructions carefully before using the device.

•Do not spill any liquid or insert any object into the device.

•Use the device within the specifications indicated, including but not limited to: power

requirements, temperature, humidity, sunlight and magnetism from other devices such as

computers and televisions.

•Please visit the Rocstor website, www.rocstor.com for further information concerning

specifications and use of the device.

General Notices

•Consistently make multiple backup copies of your data for your protection. Hard disk drives

are subject to failure at any time.

•Rocstorage, Inc. shall not be held liable for loss of data or the restoration or recovery of

data on the device. Please view complete Limited Warranty Information in this manual or

on the Rocstor website (www.rocstor.com) for further details.

Capacity Disclaimer

Actual accessible hard drive capacity will indicate up to 10% lower than stated under different

Operating Systems and formatting.

The storage volume is measured in total bytes before formatting. References to round

numbers of gigabytes or terabytes are an approximation only. For example, a disk drive labeled

as having 500GB (gigabytes) has space for approximately 500,000,000,000 bytes before

formatting. After formatting, the drive capacity is reduced by about 5% to 10% depending on

the operating system and formatting used.

Care and Handling

The following instructions concern the proper care and handling of Lancer LX Drives. Please

take a moment to review these instructions.

•As with any storage solution, it is recommended that all data be backed up regularly.

•Ensure that you follow the proper removal procedure to disconnect the Lancer drive.

•Do not move or disconnect this device from your computer while it is reading or writing

data. This may cause damage to the Lancer drive.

•Do not place this device near a heat source or expose it to direct flame.

•Do not place the device near any equipment generating strong electromagnetic fields.

Exposure to strong electromagnetic fields may cause the device to malfunction or data to

be corrupted.

•Do not drop or cause shock to your Lancer drive.

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•Do not spill any liquid or insert any object into the device.

•Do not attempt to disassemble and service the Lancer drive during the warranty period.

•Please read the Safety Notices and Limited Warranty information in this Manual and on

the Rocstor website (www.rocstor.com) for further details.

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GENERAL

Introduction

LANCER LX - Mobile (Pocket) Hard Drives

USB 3.0 (2.0) and Two FireWire 800 (400) ports

Lancer LX pocket drives deliver remarkable

performance and reliability. Designed and

engineered by Rocstor in the USA to meet the

needs of the demanding mobile data storage

market; the Lancer mobile external drives are

compatible with both Windows and Macintosh

environments.

LANCER LX - Like other Rocstor products, LANCER LX drives are both bus-powered and

bootable. The new LANCER LX pocket drives can contain fast, high-capacity 2.5” SATA hard

disk (HDD) or solid state drives (SSD) mechanism; with up to 5,000 Mbits/sec transfer speeds

and multiple interfaces.

Choose Rocstor drives and store your future.

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Box Contents

•External hard disk drive

•USB 3.0 cable (compatible with USB 2.0)

•9-pin to 9-pin FireWire 800 (1394b) cable

•Installation user Guide

•Carrying case

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Minimum System Requirements

Mac Users: Window Users:

* Many computers do not come with factory installed FireWire 800 ports. Therefore, you may

need to purchase a PCI, PCI-X or PCI-Express card to use these ports. Rocstor offers a variety of

accessories to work with PC Windows or Mac based Computers. Please visit us at

www.ROCSTOR.com

Connectors

•FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) port x2

(You may connect FireWire 800 to a FireWire 400 port via a special cable {also read page 12})

•USB 3.0 port x1

Hardware: or FireWire

800 (or 400) or

USB 3.0 (or 2.0) port(s.)

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows

Me, XP, Vista, Widows 7 …

Recommended memory: 512 MB RAM

Hardware: FireWire

(400 or 800) or USB

3.0 (or 2.0) port(s.)

Mac: PowerPC or Intel processor running

Mac OS 1.5 and later …

Recommended memory: 512 MB RAM

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QUICK INSTALLATION

How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive

1. Turn ON your computer and wait until it fully boots up to load all programs.

2. Using only one interface cable at a time, select the interface port you wish to use on your

computer. When using FireWire, connect one end of the FireWire cable to the appropriate

FireWire port) of your computer and then the other end to the FireWire port in the Lancer.

When using USB, connect one ends of the USB cable to the USB ports of your computer (or

via Power Hub that is connected to your computer) and then the other end to the USB port

in the Lancer. Upon connection, the light on the Lancer drive will turn ON.

3. The Hard drive is preformatted for Plug-and-Play operation. After a few seconds a Rocstor

HD icon will show on “My Computer” folder under the Windows OS. Under the Mac OS,

the Rocstor HD icon will appear on the “Desktop.”

4. Click (double click) on the Rocstor HD icon to access the drive.

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Cable Types

FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394a) 6-Pin FireWire 400 connector

•FireWire 400 can transfer data between devices at 400 Mbits/sec

FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) 9-Pin FireWire 800 connector

•FireWire 400 can transfer data between devices at 800 Mbits/sec

USB supports three data transfer rates:

•USB 3.0: A Supper-Speed (USB 3.0) rate of up to 5,000 Mbits/s (1GB/3.3sec)

•USB 2.0: A Hi-Speed (USB 2.0) rate of 480 Mbits/s (60 MB/sec)

•USB 1.1: A Full Speed rate of 12 Mbits/s (1.5 MB/sec)

•USB 1.0: A Low Speed rate of 1.5 Mbits/s (187 KB/sec)

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