Addonics Technologies Console Drive USIB35 User manual

Addonics
T E C H N O L O G I E S
Console Drive USIB35
Console Rack
Console ExDrive
Users Guide
Revision 1.0

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FCC Warning Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to complywith the limits for a class
B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are
designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio
frequency energy. If not installed and used in accordance with the instructions,
it may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is
no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If the
equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment on and off, the user is
encouraged to try and correct the interference by one or more of the following
suggestions.
•Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna
•Increase the distance between the equipment and the receiver
•Connect the equipment to a different power outlet other than the
one where receiver is connected
•Consult a certified television or radio technician

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Contents
FCC Warning...................................................................................1
Contents............................................................................................2
Chapter 1 Getting started..................................................................3
Chapter 2 Console Drive Enclosure Parts Overview..........................4
External Hard Drive Installation........................................5
External Hard Drive setting...............................................6
Chapter 3 USB Interface Cable Installation ......................................7
Serial ATA Interface Cable Installation ...........................8
Firewire Interface Cable Installation ................................9
CardBus/PCMCIA Interface Cable Installation .........10-13
Chapter 4 Console Drive Cradle Parts Overview......................... …14
Internal Hard Drive Installation.................................. …15
Chapter 5 Partitioning and Formatting the Hard Drive...........…16-19
Technical Support & Contact Information.................................... …20

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Chapter 1
Getting Started
Make sure that you have the following items:
For Console Drive USIB35 with USB2.0 Cable
lHDD Console Enclosure
lHDD Console Tray
lConsole Cradle
lUSB2.0/1.1 USIB interface cable
lPower Cable/AC adapter
lDriver CD
lThis User Guide
For Console Drive USIB35 with Firewire Cable
lHDD Console Enclosure
lHDD Console Tray
lConsole Cradle
lFirewire/iLink USIB interface cable
lPower Cable/AC adapter
lThis User Guide
For Console Drive USIB35 with Serial ATA Cable
lHDD Console Enclosure
lHDD Console Tray
lConsole Cradle
lExternal SATA USIB interface cable
lPower Cable/AC adapter
lThis User Guide
For Console Drive USIB35 with Cardbus/PCMCIA Cable
lHDD Console Enclosure
lHDD Console Tray
lConsole Cradle
lCardBus/PCMCIA card and USIB interface cable
lPower Cable/AC adapter
lDriver CD
lThis User Guide

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Chapter 2
(Console Drive Enclosure Parts Overview)

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Hard Drive Installation Inside the Console Drive Enclosure
Note:
To open the Enclosure Case, the three screws from the
Bottom must be removed first.

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External Settings for the Console Drive Enclosure
ØSet the switch to EXT. from the front and back of the enclosure to use
the drive as an external hard drive. (Picture Shown Above)
ØExternal power is required for the external configuration.
ØAttach the Universal Interface Cable (USB2.0, Firewire,
Cardbus/PCMCIA or Serial ATA) to the back of the enclosure USIB
port then connect the other end to your computer.
Note: ØWe recommend setting the hard drive to MASTER
mode/setting at all times.

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Chapter 3
USB 2.0 Interface Cable Installation
ØSince USB 2.0 Hi-Speed is an evolution of the existing USB 1.1
specification, it is fully forward and backward compatible with current
USB systems.
ØIf you do not have an USB2.0 port, you may install an optional
USB2.0 adapter or controller
USB driver installation
For Win98 and Win98SE
1. Make sure your computer is up and running.
2. Insert the USB cable to the USB Port.
3. A "New Hardware Found" message shall pops up.
4. Follow wizard and point to the location of the driver. (Follow the steps
from the Driver Disc to where you saved the driver files)
5. Let Windows finish the installation and that’s it.
6. Double click MyComputer icon and there should be an extra drive
letter for the Console Hard Drive.
7. You may now access the drive.
Note:USB Console Drive is Plug and Play under Windows XP, and Me,
2000. There is no third party driver needed.
Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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Serial ATA Interface Cable Installation
Serial ATA Console Hard Drive Installation
For Win98SE, Me, 2000 and XP
Note: There no drivers needed to use the Serial ATA cable as long as the
drivers are installed for the Serial ATA Controller card/chip. It is plug and
play.
1. Make sure the Serial ATA cable is securely attach to the back of the drive.
(For Addonics Pocket drives such as Pocket CDROM, Exdrive etc. you
may attach the USB connector to the USB port of the computer to provide
power for the pocket drives). May vary from system’s USBport power
output.
2. Make sure that power is attach to the drive and turned on.
3. Power on the system or you mayhot plug while system is on.
4. On the Window Desktop, double click on the MY COMPUTER icon.
5. Plug the Serial ATA connector into your computer’s Serial ATA port.
6. Wait for a few seconds, your computer may blink for a moment as well.
Double Click on the “My Computer” icon if not open yet.
You are now ready to use the Console hard drive kit.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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Firewire Interface Cable Installation
Firewire Console Hard Drive Installation
For Win98SE, Me, 2000 and XP
Note for Win98SE only: After plugging in the cable some system might
prompt you for Win98SE CD, in case you don’t have The Win98SE CD and
the wizard prompt you for:
NTMAP.SYS please type C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
NTMAPHLP.PDR please type C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
IF the system did not prompt you for anything just follow the steps below
7. Make sure the Firewire cable is securely attach from the back of the drive.
8. Make sure that power is attached and turned on.
9. Power on the system. On the Window Desktop, double click on the MY
COMPUTER icon.
10. Plug the Addonics Six Pin FIREWIRE-IDE cable into your computer’s
FIREWIRE
11. Wait for a few seconds, your computer may blink for a moment as well.
Double Click on the “My Computer” icon if not open yet.
You are now ready to use the Console hard drive kit.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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CardBus / PCMCIA setting
The Addonics CardBus PCMCIA card has an option switch can allow you
to choose using either PCMCIA mode or CardBus mode. The switch
position is as follows:
Side View
CardBus mode supports WIN 95/98/ME/2000 and XP only.
For DOS, WIN 3.1x and WIN NT, the switch must be set in
PCMCIA mode.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.
Front view
Cardbus and PCMCIA
selection switch.
CardBus mode – move the
switch to the side with the
DOT indicator
PCMCIA
CardBus
Factory default setting
is CardBus mode

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CardBus/PCMCIA driver Installation
For Windows 95, 98, 98SE and Me
(Do not run the SETUP program from the driver disk, SETUP
Is for DOS or WIN 3.1 using PCMCIA mode only)
1. Power on your system and wait for the Desktop screen.
2. Connect the CardBus/PCMCIA cable and external AC/DC adapter into
the back of your Console hard drive kit.
3. Plug the CardBus / PCMCIA card end of the cable into the PCMCIA
slot on the side of your computer.
4. The system will automatically identify the new card and ask to load the
driver.
5. Insert the driver diskette in “A” drive and follow the instruction on the
screen to load “Addonics CardBus IDE Controller”. Follow wizard
and point to the location of the driver. (Follow the steps from the
Driver Disc to where you saved the driver files)
6. When installation is finished, a PCMCIA card icon will appear in the
lower right-hand of the Window’s system tray.
7. Double Click on the “My Computer” icon. You are now ready to use the
Console hard drive kit.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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PCMCIA Installation for Windows NT
1. Go to Start\Settings\Control Panel
2. Double Click SCSI adapter icon
3. Click on the Driver Tab
4. Click Add to add new driver
5. Follow wizard and point to the location of the driver. (Follow the steps
from the Driver Disc to where you saved the driver files)
6. Select “Addonics PCMCIA…” then click ok.
7. Windows will prompt you for driver location again, to continue
Type in A:\NT then click continue.
8. Click YES to restart your computer.
9. Double Click on the “My Computer” icon. You are now ready to use
the Console hard drive kit.
Note: You must use the PCMCIA mode for Windows NT.
CardBus/PCMCIA Installation for Windows 2000
1. Make sure your computer is up and running
2. Verify that all cables are connected and there is power to the drive.
3. Insert the PCMCIA cable to the PCMCIA socket.
4. A "New Hardware Found" message shall pops up.
5. Select "Next" to continue installation.
6. Select "Search for a suitable driver...." button and select "Next".
7. In "select a Device Driver page", select "Have Disk" to specify
location. Follow wizard and point to the location of the driver. (Follow
the steps from the Driver Disc to where you saved the driver files)
Select "Addonics CardBus...." click YES for the Windows warning
message and let Win2000 tofinish the Installation and that's it.
8. Double Click on the “My Computer” icon. You are now ready to use
The Console hard drive kit.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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CardBus/PCMCIA Driver Installation
(Windows XP PCMCIA Installation Guide)
1. Make sure that all cables are properly connected and the drive has
power.
2. If you are using the Console drives, make sure that the power brick has
a steady green light.
3. Boot your computer to Windows.
4. Plug in the Cardbus/PCMCIA cable to the Computer's PCMCIA
Socket/Port then insert the card to the Computer.
5. Windows should now find a new hardware and ask for the driver
location.
6. Follow the Wizard. Click next to Continue.
7. Follow wizard and point to the location of the driver. (Follow the steps
from the Driver Disc to where you saved the driver files) example
browse to your floppy drive and go to the A:\Win2kXp folder.
8. Click the second radio button or select the ADVANCED button then
Click Next.
9. Select the "Search for best driver in this location”. Check the “include
this Location in the search” option only then click Browse.
10. Browse to your floppy drive and go to the A:\Win2kXp folder.
11. Select the WinXP driver then click OK, Click next to continue.
12. Click the "Continue Anyway" to proceed.
13. Let the OS install the Driver and that's it. Click Finish.
Click YES to restart the Computer if prompted and that's it.
Note: Brand New Hard drive must be Partitioned and Formatted first.

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(Console Drive Cradle Parts Overview)
DVD Console Tray is used
with the Addonics Optical
Slim drives such as Pocket
CD, Pocket DVD/RW,
Pocket DVD+/-RW drives.
With the DVD console tray,
you can make the external
drives to become an internal
drive.
Power to the Console
Cradle is recommended
and the switch must be
set to the right to get
power from the power
supply.
HDD Console Tray is used
with the external console
enclosure to make it an internal
hard drive. Once the HDD
console tray is in place inside
the Console cradle the console
enclosure switch must be set to
INT.
IMPORTANT NOTE: IF another device is sharing the IDE channel, the
Console Drive must be set to SLAVE setting.

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Console Drive Cradle Installation
ØThe console drive kit can be connected with IDE connection by default
or with an optional converter board or USIB cable.
ØIf one of the USIB cable is use with the console cradle like USB2.0 or
Firewire the kit can be hot swappable. If serial ATA cable is use, the
serial ATA controller must support hot Swap feature for the kit to
work.
ØPower to the Console Drive is recommended using the regular 4-pin
Power connector coming from the computer’s power supply.
ØThe power switch on the back of the Console Cradle must be set to the
Right to get power from the computer’s power supply.

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How to Partition the Hard Disk under Windows 98,SE
Windows comes with a built-in utility called fdisk. This program is used to
partition a large hard drive into smaller virtual drives. One advantage of having
two smaller virtual drives is the decreased downtime while running
applications such as Scandisk or Defrag.
To use fdisk to partition a hard drive, followthese directions:
1. To open fdisk, left-click the Start menu, select Run or Hold, and
release the Windows button + R.
2. At the command line, type "fdisk" (without quotes) and hit Enter.
3. When fdisk opens you'll be asked if you'd like to enable large disk
support. "Y" should already be selected. Hit Enter.
4. Next, you need to set the current fixed disk drive to equal your newly
installed hard drive. To do this, select 5 from the list and press Enter.
5. Find the number next to your new drive, type it into Enter Fixed Disk
Drive Number, and hit Enter. (In most cases, if you just added a
second hard drive, the number from the list will equal 2. Before you
proceed, double-check that the current fixed hard drive is equal to the
new hard drive you just installed. If it is, you should see any number
other than 1 next to Current Fixed Drive.)
6. This will take you back tothe beginning screen.
7. From here, select 1 to "Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive"
and hit Enter.
8. Select 1 to "Create Primary DOS Partition" and hit Enter.
9. Your computer will begin to verifythe new drive's integrity. This
process will only take few minutes to complete.
10. The next screen to appear will ask, "Do you wish to use the maximum
available size for a Primary DOS partition?" Press Y if you only want
to create one partition or N if you'd like to create multiple partitions on
the drive. Then hit Enter.

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Create one partition
1. If you pressed Y, the computer will create the partition and then
transfer you back to the beginning screen. From here, select 4 to
inspect to new hard drive's partition.
Create multiple partitions
1. If you pressed N, then you're going to create multiple partitions. To do
this, you'll need to set the size of the new partition. This is done by
entering a value next to "Enter partition size in Mbytes or percent of
disk space to create a Primary DOS Partition."
For example, if your new hard drive is 20GB and you'd like to create
two 10GB drives, entering 50% will do just fine. To enter a number in
Mbytes, take the total number in Mbytes and divide it in half to get the
correct number to input. To make things easier, just use a percentage
of the total hard drive and let your computer do the math for you.
2. When you've finished entering the size of the new partition, hit Enter
to create it.
3. Press Esc to return to the new drives main menu.
4. From here, select 1 to "Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive."
5. Now it's time to create the extended partition. To do this, select 2 from
the menu and hit Enter.
6. A screen that says, "Enter partition size in Mbytes or percent of disk
space to create an Extended DOS Partition" will appear. You should
notice that the computer did the math for you and filled in the
remaining hard drive space to be partitioned. If this number is OK,
press Enter to complete the process. If it's not, and you plan on
creating additional partitions, lower the number accordingly and then
press Enter.
7. After fdisk creates the partition, press Esc to return to the new hard
drive's main menu.
8. Before the new extended partition will work, it needs to have a Logical
DOS Drive created on it. To do this, select 1 on the list to "Create
DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive."

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9. Select 3 from the list to "Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended
DOS Partition" and hit Enter.
10. Your computer will then verify drive integrity and automatically
deliver the size of the extended drive. You should see a number next to
"Enter logical drive size in Mbytes or percentage of drive." This
number should equal the size of the extended drive you created earlier.
11. Press Enter to "Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS
Partition."
12. After hitting Enter, you'll see a new letter assigned to the new partition
you just created.
13. Press Esc to exit this screen and return to main menu.
How many partitions do you have?
1. To verify the two new partitions were created successfully, select 5 to
"Change current fixed disk drive" and hit Enter.
2. You should see all the drives on your computer, including the two you
just created.
3. Hit Esc twice to exit fdisk.
4. You must restart your computer before the new partitions will be
recognized.
How to Format a Hard Disk
IMPORTANT: If you use the following steps on a hard disk that is not empty, all
of the data on that hard disk is permanently deleted.
1. After the partition there should now be a new drive letter under My
Computer.
2. Right click on the drive letter and left click Format. A new window
will show up. Select the Full Format option then click Start to
continue.
3. When the Format is complete, you can now access the drive letter
assigned for the hard drive.

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How to Create a New Partition or Logical Drive under Windows2000 or
XP
1. In the Disk Management window, do one of the following:
oTo create a new partition, right-click unallocated space on the basic disk
where you want to create the partition, and then click New Partition.
-Or-
oTo create a new logical drive, right-click free space on an extended
partition where you want to create the logical drive, and then click New
Logical Drive.
2. On the Welcome to the New Partition Wizard page, click Next.
3. On the Select Partition Type page, click the type of partition that you want to
create, and then click Next.
4. On the Specify Partition Size page, specify the size in megabytes (MB) of the
partition that you want to create, and then click Next.
5. On the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, enter a drive letter or drive path, and then
click Next.
6. On the Format Partition page, specify the formatting options that you want, and
then click Next.
7. On the Completing the New Partition Wizard page, verifythat the options that you
selected are correct, and then click Finish.
Format a Partition or Logical Drive
1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you
want to format, and then click Format.
2. Specify the formatting options that you want, and then click OK.
3. Click OK when you are prompted to confirm the formatting changes.
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