Technical information

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• Before starting any type of hardware installation, please ensure that all power switches have been
turned off and all power cords have been disconnected to prevent personal injury and damage to
the hardware.
• To avoid overheating, RTX should be operated in a well-ventilated area and in such a way that
sufficient airflow is maintained across the controller chips.
• Static electricity can damage electronic components. To guard against such damage:
o Work in a static-free environment
o Wear a grounded anti-static wrist strap
o Store uninstalled components in anti-static bags
o Handle PCBs by their edges and avoid touching chips and connectors.
Usage with Macintosh Computers
Mounting and Ejecting Volumes
When you connect the unit to the Mac for the first time and turn on the power,
you’ll probably see a message saying that the disk is unreadable. This is
because you must format the volume before using it. The easiest way to do
this is to use Mac OS X’s Disk Utility. If you plan to use the unit on both Macs
and PCs, select “MS DOS File System” as the format type. If you only plan to
use the unit on Macs, then select “Mac OS Extended”. After the volume is
formatted, an icon representing the drive volume will appear (“mount”) on the
desktop. You can now use the volume just like an internal hard drive.
Eject the volume before powering down the unit by dragging the volume’s icon
to the trash bin, or by selecting the volume then pressing Command-E. Shutting down the unit without
first ejecting the volume can result in data loss.
Usage with Windows Computers
Formatting Volumes
Before you can use your RTX-UR, you must first format the drives into a volume. Use Disk Management,
which you can find by right-clicking on My Computer then selecting Manage. Select NTFS for the format
type.
After the volume is formatted, an icon representing the drive volume will appear in My Computer. You
can now use the volume just like an internal hard drive.
Ejecting Volumes
Unlike external storage devices that connect via FireWire or USB, SCSI devices cannot usually be
ejected. It is possible to disable the device using Device Manager. Whether or not you choose to disable
the device in this way, always make sure the drives are not being accessed before shutting off the RTX-
UR. If the unit is turned off in the middle of a data input/output process, data loss may result.