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OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO

SYSTEM SETUP

2.3 LARGE VOLUME SUPPORT AND FIREWIRE BOOTING IN OS X

When your Mercury Elite Pro is preconﬁgured, a setting known as “large volume support”

is enabled. Enabling large volume support allows the Mercury Elite Pro to utilize the full

capacity of hard drives larger than 2TB.

When large volume support is enabled, PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs introduced before

2008 will not be able to boot to the Mercury Elite Pro over the FireWire connection. Mac

models introduced in 2008 and later are capable of using the Mercury Elite Pro as a startup

drive over FireWire, even with large volume support enabled. Note that this only aﬀects

FireWire booting. All Intel Macs are still able to boot to the Mercury Elite Pro over USB,

regardless of large volume support.

Large volume support in the Mercury Elite Pro is controlled by a

switch, pictured to the left. The switch is located inside the Mercury

Elite Pro (see Section 2.2 for information on how to access the

switch).

When the switch is in the ‘ON’ position, large volume support is enabled. When the switch is

in the ‘1’ position, large volume support is disabled, which will limit the capacity of installed

drives to a maximum of 2TB, but will allow the unit to be used as a startup drive over FireWire

on PowerPC Macs and Intel Macs introduced before 2008.

NOTE: If the drive in the Mercury Elite Pro is larger than 2TB and the switch is set to disable

large volume support, existing data will no longer be accessible and the drive will

need to be formatted. Make sure to back up any important data before changing

the switch setting.

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