Granite Digital SATA 2 Bay Aluminum Series - Manual (Page 11)

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Drive & Host Adapter Install
Formatting & Partitioning
After the Host Adapter
and drivers have been
installed the next step is to
format and partition your
drive mechanism. This
procedure is different in
every operating system.
The screen on the right is
an example of what the
Macintosh uses... it is
called “Disk Utility”. On a
PC running windows it is
called “Disk Management”.
No matter which operating system you are running the basics are still
the same. The drive will need to be formatted and partitioned before it can
be used. Details for your operating system are provided by the
manufacturer of that OS.
After you finish this initialization process the drive will then be ready
to use. Again, every system is slightly different especially when it comes to
Hot-Swapability.
On most Windows platforms, XP for example, SATA drives can
simply be removed and they disappear. Then another drive can be
reinserted and it will appear automatically. When you insert the drive on
Macintosh computers it automatically appears but to remove it you must
first throw it into the trash can. On Linux and Unix systems use the mount
and unmount commands to remove and/or add a volume.