! T ST N A IR T F R E O M P IM AD E R ™ USER FireChief GUIDE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Package Contents............................................................................... 1 What is the FireChief........................................................................... 1 Power Considerations ......................................................................... 2 FireChief Cabling to PC ...................................................................... 2 Drive Configuration .............................................................................
Package Contents The following is included with the FireChief: • • • • • • • FireChief 800 (1) Power cord (1) FireWire Cable (9-pin to 9-pin) (1) FireWire Adapter (9-pin to 6-pin) (1) FireWire Adapter (9-pin to 4-pin) (1) SATA Drive Tray (2) User Guide (1) What is the FireChief FireChief is a dual bay FireWire to IDE/SATA enclosure with a drive bay that is hardware write protected (ReadOnly) and a drive bay that is write enabled (Read/Write).
Drive Configuration Before connecting an IDE disk drive to the FireChief, the drive must be configured (jumpered) as a Single Master Device. Both hard drives must be configured (jumpered) as a Master IDE Device. Certain models of IDE hard drives (Western Digital) may specifically require the device to be configured as a “Master Device in a Single Drive Configuration” (no Slave device present on IDE Channel).
“Drive Racks” are the part of the drive bay that mounts permanently inside the system chassis. The FireChief includes 2 SATA Drive Racks, 2 SATA Trays and 2 BRIDGE Trays (for IDE hard drives). The Drive Racks are mounted in the FireChief case. The Drive Racks have a SATA interface and will only accept SATA or BRIDGE Trays. The Drive Racks will not accept older IDE trays used with previous FireChiefs. Identifying Drive Trays Drive trays have two interfaces which identify how they may be used.
Swapping Drives 1. “Stop”, “Unload”, or “Dismount” the FireWire device using the applicable operating system icon, process, or utility. This will notify the operating system to complete any pending transfer operations so that the device can be properly disconnected. 2. Disconnect FireChief: computer. 3. Power off the FireChief 4. Remove existing drive: Once the FireChief has been powered off the drive tray maybe unlocked and removed from the unit.
The default for the Read Only bridge is all switches turned OFF (Read Only). The default for the Read/Writeable bridge is with switch #1 ON and all other switches (#2, #3, and #4) turned OFF (Read Write). When Switch #1 is OFF the bridge will operate with all writes being blocked (Read Only). When switch #1 is ON the bridge will operate with writes enabled (Read Write).
been stored in the disk cache. A subsequent reboot of the system will clear the disk cache and show that no changes/modifications were made to the write protected drive. Pressing “CTRL-C” in MS-DOS will cause the disk cache to be reset and show this fact as well. Most forensic imaging software uses direct disk access to read directly from the disk itself, the contents of the operating system disk cache will not effect the ability to image the disk.
Firmware updates. If there is a need to update firmware please consult Digital Intelligence web site support pages: http://www.digitalintelligence.com/support.
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