Dismounting Drives. Buffalo Tech TeraStation 5000

Connect only one device to each USB port of the TeraStation. Some external drives with automatic power-on don’t turn on automatically when connected to the TeraStation. Use their manual power switch to turn them on. Be sure to connect only one bus-powered drive at a time. If there is insufficient bus power for your USB drive, connect its AC adapter. Note that only the first partition of a connected USB hard drive is mounted. Additional partitions are not recognized. Do not connect bus-powered devices to the TS5200D.

Notes:

• Hubs are not supported. Connect a single USB drive to each USB port.

• Backup data from Mac OS may include characters that cannot be written to FAT16 or FAT32 drives such as “.DS_

Store”. For best results, reformat the drive before using it as a backup target.

• If your USB 3.0 hard drive is not reconfigured after rebooting the TeraStation, unplug and reconnect it.

Dismounting Drives

If the TeraStation is powered on, dismount drives (internal and external) before unplugging them. You may dismount external drives with the function button, or any drive from Settings. If the TeraStation is off, then all drives are already dismounted and may be unplugged safely.

Dismounting with the Function Button

Hold down the function button for 8 seconds. The function button will light up blue for 30 seconds as your USB drives are dismounted. When the dismount is finished, the function button’s LED will turn off, then come back on. You may now unplug any USB drives safely.

Note: After 60 seconds, the function LED will go out and any drives that have not yet been unplugged will be remounted.

Dismounting from Settings

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In Settings, click Drives.

2

Select Drives to dismount an internal drive or USB drives to dismount an external drive.

3

Select the drive to dismount and click Dismount Disk.

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