FireWire^® Guidelines

You can use this section to verify that you have the necessary system requirements to support the FireWire Peerless Drive System and to familiarize yourself with the do's and dont's for FireWire devices.

System Requirements: Windows or Macintosh

Your system must meet the minimum requirements below to support the FireWire Peerless Drive System.

• Pentium^® 100 or higher with an SBP-2 compliant 1394 controller(tt)
• Microsoft^® Windows 98SE/2000/Me
• Recommended RAM requirements for your operating system (see your OS manual for details)
• 4X CD-ROM drive (for software installation)
• 10MB hard drive space recommended, software suite applications will require additional hard drive space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer^® 4.01 or higher or Netscape Navigator^® 4.5 or higher (to view user’s manual)

• Any Macintosh^® computer with built-in FireWire controller
• Mac OS 8.6 through 9.X (check with Iomega for latest operating system support)
• 2X CD-ROM drive (for software installation)
• 10MB hard drive space recommended, software suite applications will require additional hard drive space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher or Netscape Navigator 4.5 or higher (to view user’s manual)

FireWire Guidelines

FireWire is an interface designed to make it easy to connect high speed devices, such as digital camcorders, audio recorders, Peerless drive systems, and other devices to your computer.

Follow these guidelines to ensure optimal and reliable performance of your FireWire Peerless Drive System.

You can...

• You can use your FireWire Peerless Drive System with either a Macintosh running Mac OS 8.6 through 9.X or a Windows PC running Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, or Windows 2000.

• You can connect or disconnect your FireWire Peerless Drive System while the computer is on. To prevent any data loss, eject the disk before disconnecting the interface cable or power cable from the interface module.

NOTE: PC users must stop the FireWire Peerless Drive System first. Windows 2000 and Me users should use the FireWire icon in the system tray. Mac users should select the Peerless icon and use the Put Away command or drag the disk onto the trash icon.



• You can ensure maximum performance by connecting the FireWire Peerless Drive System directly to your computer instead of other FireWire devices.

• You can use the FireWire Peerless Drive System with SBP-2 compliant controllers. The drive system is designed to work on SBP-2 compliant controllers as a bus-powered device. Contact the manufacturer of your computer if you do not know the type of FireWire controller in your system.

Do not...

• Do not connect or disconnect your FireWire Peerless Drive System while it is transferring information—data loss will result!. Do not disconnect your FireWire Peerless Drive System or unplug power to the base station while a disk is inserted. To prevent any data loss, eject the disk before disconnecting the interface cable or power cable from the interface module.

  NOTE: If the blue status/activity light is blinking, the FireWire Peerless Drive System is transferring information. Wait to connect or disconnect any other FireWire devices until the activity light stops blinking.

• Do not use any 6-pin FireWire cable with your drive other than an Iomega cable.

For best performance...

• Unused FireWire ports should be left empty. There are no terminators for FireWire connections.

• Check the Iomega Web site www.iomega.com frequently for updated software and the latest information on FireWire.

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