Maxtor 800 manual System Requirements, FireWire

FireWire 800

9-pin to 9-pin FireWire 800

(1394b) Cable

FireWire 400

6-pin to 6-pin FireWire 400

(1394a) cable

Many laptop computers, have a smaller 4-pin FireWire port requiring a special 4-pin to 6-pin FireWire cable. This is not included, but can be purchased from your local computer store.

System Requirements

Macintosh

•	FireWire 800 requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher
	and FireWire 800 (9-pin) equipped computer
•	Apple G4 processor or greater
•	Mac OS 9.1 or later (FW 800 not supported);
	OS X (10.1.2-10.1.5; 10.2.4 or later)
•	OS 9: 64MB RAM or more as required by
	operating system
•	OS X: 128MB RAM or more as required by
	operating system

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USB

‘A’ to ‘B’ USB cable

The ‘A’ connector, typically, plugs into your computer and the ‘B’ connector plugs into your drive.

If your computer has a different type of USB connection, you can purchase the correct type of cable from your local computer store.

‘A’‘B’

connector connector

• CD-ROM drive

• Internet connection (for system updates)

Mac OS 9 is compatible only with the FireWire 400 inferface. Retrospect Express does not work with the Server edition of the Mac OS.

USB 1.1 is slower than USB 2 or FireWire.

Though this model has both USB and FireWire interfaces, it is only possible to use one interface at a time.

Introduction

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