Introduction; Display Information; About The Hard Drive - Verbatim InSight Guia Del Usuario

Introduction

InSight is an innovative portable disk drive that allows you to
view information about your drive even when it is not connected
to a computer. Its unique cholesteric liquid crystal display (LCD)
maintains its display image without any power source. You can carry
InSight with you wherever you go and be able to read the
information on its display.

Display Information

The display shows the drive's Volume Label on the top line and the
remaining free space (in gigabytes) on the bottom line. When using
Windows XP or Mac OS, the display information is updated each
time you connect the drive to a computer and each time you do a
safe removal of the drive (see below Disconnecting Your Portable
Hard Drive). When using Windows Vista and Windows 7, the display
is updated only when you connect the drive.
To change the Volume Label in Windows, right-click on the drive in
My Computer and then select Rename. To change the Volume Label
in Mac OS, highlight the drive on the desktop and then click on the
drive name to edit. The new volume label will show on the display
the next time the display is refreshed.
The number and types of characters that can be displayed depends
on certain requirements of the Operating System, the drive format
and of the display itself. The drive format requirements are
summarized below.
• FAT32 Volume Label can contain up to 11 upper-case-only
characters with the following character exclusions * ? / \ | . , ; : +
= [ ] < > "
• HFS+ Volume Label can not begin with a period and can contain
up to 32 characters, excluding :
• NTFS Volume Label can contain up to 32 characters with no
exclusions.
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Volume Label strings longer than the display size will be truncated.
Any characters in the Volume Label string that are not in the
display's supported character set will be displayed as *.

About the Hard Drive

The hard drive comes pre-formatted in FAT32 format. This format
allows for operation with either Windows or Mac OS.
If you want to format to NTFS please consult your Windows
documentation and select an allocation unit size of 64K when
formatting. Because calculating the amount of free space for large
NTFS formatted drives can take considerable time (up to 3 minutes
in some instances), there are special considerations for using the
InSight display feature under NTFS:
• Upon connecting the drive, the display will show "scanning ..."
and the blue LED will flash while the drive is busy calculating
the remaining free space. This process must complete fully
before the display will refresh and the drive will show up in
My Computer.
• Upon safe removal, Windows may display the message
indicating it is now safe to disconnect the drive, even while the
drive itself is still busy calculating remaining free space. While
the drive is still busy calculating, the display will show
"scanning ..." and the blue LED will flash. Please wait for the
flashing to cease and for the display to refresh.
• Longer calculation time is required for larger drive capacities.
• Shorter calculation time is required when using larger allocation
unit sizes. For this reason we recommend selecting an allocation
unit size of 64K when formatting to NTFS with this product.
If you plan to use your hard drive only with computers running
Mac OS, you may reformat to HFS+. If your version of the Mac disk
formatting utility shows the option "Install Mac OS 9 drivers", leave
this box unchecked. Consult your Mac OS documentation for how to
format to HFS+.
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