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LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Foreword page 1 Copyrights Copyright © 2003 LaCie. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of LaCie. Trademarks Apple, Mac, Macintosh and FireWire are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Sony and iLink are registered trademarks of Sony Electronics.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Foreword Canada Compliance Statement This Class A digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Health and Safety Precautions page 3 Health and Safety Precautions Only qualified persons are authorized to carry out maintenance on this device. • Read this User's Guide carefully, and follow the correct procedure when setting up the device. • Do not attempt to disassemble or modify your PCI card. Never insert any metallic object into the circuitry to avoid any risk of electrical shock, fire, short-circuiting or dangerous emissions.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Health and Safety Precautions 1. Introduction 1.1 Icons Used In This Manual 1.2 What Is FireWire? 2. Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card 2.1 Minimum System Requirements 2.2 Electrostatic Discharge 2.3 FireWire Card Installation 2.3.1 Mac Users 2.3.2 PC Users 2.4 Driver Verification 3. Troubleshooting 4. Contacting Customer Support 4.1 Warranty 5. Appendix 1 – FireWire Questions and Answers 6.
Introduction LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual page 5 1. Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card. Now when you connect your FireWire devices through your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card, you will be able to achieve the impressive transfer rates that FireWire makes possible.
Introduction LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual page 6 1.2. What Is FireWire? FireWire, also known as IEEE 1394, is a high-speed serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other, and FireWire 800 is the implementation of the new IEEE 1394b standard. Pushing the speed barrier to new limits, FireWire 800 offers increased bandwidth and extended cabling distance between devices.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card page 7 2. Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card 2.1 Minimum System Requirements Hardware Requirements for FireWire 800: • Mac: G4 • PC: Pentium III or higher compatible processor • 128MB RAM or higher • PCI slot that complies with PCI Specification Rev.2.0 or above System Requirements for FireWire 800: • Mac OS 10.2.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card page 8 2.2 Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Static electricity is an electric charge caused by an imbalance of electrons on the surface of a material. When you touch an object and are shocked, this is the transfer of the static charge or the balancing of your charge to that of the object. This exchange is called Electrostatic Discharge or ESD.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card page 9 should be mounted with the circuitry and three FireWire connectors facing down. There is only way to mount the card, so if you are having problems inserting the card into the PCI slot, make sure that it is oriented correctly. Be sure that the gold contact pins of the PCI card are seated completely inside your computer’s PCI slot. Be aware that it may take some force to get the card fully seated in the slot.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card page 10 5) Once the PCI card is seated correctly, tighten with a screw, and, if necessary, replace any add-in boards that you removed in Step 3. 6) Now you are ready to put the computer’s cover back on and reconnect all of your external peripheral devices and cables. 7) Power on your computer. After the start up procedure has finished, you should be able to connect devices through the available FireWire ports.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Installing Your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card page 11 2.4 Driver Verification Windows 98 SE & Me Users: From the Start menu, click on Settings, and then open the Control Panel. From the Control Panel, click on System, and then click on the Device Manager button. In the list that follows, you should see the following: 1394 Bus Controller.
Troubleshooting LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual page 12 3. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie FireWire PCI Card is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out where the problem is coming from. If you need further assistance, please contact LaCie Technical Support (see 4. Contacting Customer Support for details). The Problem Questions to Ask Possible Solutions Your system will not boot or start properly.
Troubleshooting LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual The Problem page 13 Questions to Ask Possible Solutions Bus-powered devices are not working when connected through the new PCI card. What kind of power requirements does your device have, and how many devices are connected to your card? Check to see that your card has the optional power cable attached. With the optional power supply connected, each FireWire 800 port can provide up to 18 W of power.
Contacting Customer Support LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual page 14 4. Contacting Customer Support Before You Contact Technical Support 1) Read the manual and review the Troubleshooting section. 2) Try to isolate the problem. If you have asked yourself all of the pertinent questions in the troubleshooting checklist, and you still can't get your LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card to work properly, contact us via the provided Web link.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Warranty page 15 4.1 Warranty LaCie warrants your PCI card against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the warranty period, LaCie will, at its option, repair or replace the defective PCI card.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Appendix page 16 5. Appendix – FireWire Questions & Answers What Does IEEE 1394 Mean? IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) refers to the engineering corps that developed the 1394th standard, defining the high-performance serial input/output (I/O) bus used to connect peripheral devices.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Appendix page 17 and asynchronous data delivery, FireWire has found a very successful place in both the computer and consumer electronics industries. Whether connecting game consoles, personal video recorders, home stereo equipment, digital TVs, hard drives, CD/DVD-RW drives, printers, scanners, tape drives or other digital hardware equipment, FireWire is well-suited to handle all these various requirements.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Glossary page 18 6. Glossary Asynchronous – Data transfer method where the data is transferred independently of other processes. With this transfer method, the intervals between transmissions can vary, and data can be resent if it is initially missed. Backup – (1) The act of creating at least one additional copy of data onto a different (and safe) storage device from where it can be retrieved at a later time if needed.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Glossary page 19 Digital – Discrete information that can be broken down to zero or one bits. Driver (peripheral manager) – A software component that enables the computer system to communicate with a peripheral. Most peripherals will not operate correctly – if at all – if the appropriate drivers are not installed on the system. File System – Links the physical map of a disc to its logical structure.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Glossary page 20 Isochronous – Data transfer method that ensures that data flows continuously and at a steady rate. These transfers provide guaranteed transmission opportunities at defined intervals. Kb (Kilobit) – Equivalent to 1,000 bits. Kb/s – Kilobits per second. 480Kb/s is equal to 60KB/s. KB (KiloByte) – Basically, this means 1,000 bytes, but it is actually 1,024 bytes. KB/s – Kilobytes per second. A means of measuring throughput.
LaCie FireWire 800 PCI Card User’s Manual Glossary page 21 RAM (Random Access Memory) – Generally referred to as a computer’s “memory.” An integrated circuit memory chip that allows information to be stored and retrieved by a microprocessor or controller. The information can be stored or accessed in any order, and all storage locations are equally accessible.