IBM ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive User manual

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Contents
Product registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
About this book ................................ vi
Part 1 : Installation and user's guide ................ 1-1
Part 2: Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Appendix A. Problem solving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Appendix B. Help and service ........................ 2-3
Online technical support ............................ 2-3
Telephone technical support .......................... 2-3
Appendix C. Product warranties and notices ................ 2-4
Warranty Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Electronic Emission Notices .......................... 2-14
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Safety information
Before installing this product, read the Safety Information.
Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações de Segurança.
Pred instalací tohoto produktu si prectete prírucku bezpecnostních instrukcí.
Læs sikkerhedsforskrifterne, før du installerer dette produkt.
Ennen kuin asennat tämän tuotteen, lue turvaohjeet kohdasta Safety
Information.
Avant d'installer ce produit, lisez les consignes de sécurité.
Vor der Installation dieses Produkts die Sicherheitshinweise lesen.
Prima di installare questo prodotto, leggere le Informazioni sulla
Sicurezza
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Lees voordat u dit product installeert eerst de veiligheidsvoorschriften.
Les sikkerhetsinformasjonen (Safety Information) før du installerer
dette produktet.
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Antes de instalar este producto lea la información de seguridad.
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About this book
This manual contains information on the IBM ThinkPadZip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive.
It is divided into the following parts:
Part 1: Installation and user’s guide
This section contains product and software descriptions, installation
requirements, installation instructions, handling and operating information,
and problem solving in the following languages:
English
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Japanese
Part 2: Appendixes
This section contains the product specifications, help and service
information, the product warranties, and notices.
Note: The illustrations in this manual might be slightly different from your hardware.
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Product description
With the ThinkPadZip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive, you can save or copy files to a Zip
cartridge in the same way you would save or copy files to other storage media, such as
diskettes. You can use 100 MB or 250 MB Zip disks, which are useful for storing
large graphics or application files, and backing up important files from your hard
drive.
In addition to this manual, this option package contains:
ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive
Carrying case
Program License Agreement
IomegaWare CD
Contact your place of purchase if any item is missing or damaged.
Important: Be sure to retain the proof of purchase because it might be required to
receive warranty service.
Before you begin
To install this drive, you must have the following:
A ThinkPad computer with an Ultrabay 2000 drive bay.
A CD-ROM drive to install the IomegaWare software.
MicrosoftWindows2000, Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT4.0
operating system.
You can find information on how to get help, technical support, and warranty service
in Appendix B, “Help and service”on page 2-3.
1The formatted capacity of 1 MB is approximately 1000000 bytes of data.
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Installing the Zip250 Drive
The ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive works with any ThinkPad computer that
has an Ultrabay 2000 bay.
Your ThinkPad computer includes a user's guide that provides drive installation
instructions specific to the computer. To correctly install the ThinkPad Zip250 drive
in your ThinkPad computer, be sure to use the instructions provided in the user's
guide.
Installing the IomegaWare Zip Drive software
To install the Zip250 drive software, follow these instructions:
1. Turn off the ThinkPad computer and insert the CD- or DVD-ROM drive into the
Ultrabay 2000 bay.
2. Turn on the computer and start the operating system.
3. Insert the IomegaWare CD into the CD- or DVD-ROM drive.
4. The installation program might start automatically. If it does not, click the Start
button, click Run, and type:
x:\setup
where xis the drive letter assigned to the CD- or DVD-ROM drive.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: If you receive an error message stating No Iomega drives found, click OK.
The installation process will continue.
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Using the ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000
Drive
This section provides information on using the Zip250 drive, including how to handle
Zip disks and tips on getting the most from your drive.
Inserting and removing Zip disks
To insert a Zip disk, hold the Zip disk with the label side up, and gently insert it into
the drive. The end of the disk will not protrude from the opening when it is fully
inserted. The LED flashes momentarily during insertion of a Zip disk. If the LED
continues to flash slowly, eject the disk and reinsert it.
To remove a Zip disk, press the disk eject button and remove the disk when it is
partially ejected from the drive opening.
Note: The LED flashes momentarily during removal. If you have a Zip disk in the
drive when you shut down the computer, the computer will automatically eject
the disk from the drive. Be sure to store the Zip disk in its protective case after
you remove it from the drive.
Attention
Push the disk eject button gently. Do not use force. The LED flashes as the Zip
drive is shutting down. The drive takes a few seconds to eject the Zip disk. Never
force a Zip disk into or out of a Zip drive.
Special disk ejection notes for Windows NT
If a Zip disk is not ejected from the Zip drive, close any windows listing the contents
of the Zip disk. The way Windows NT handles disk caching might cause a delay, but
after a few seconds Windows NT will allow the Zip disk to be ejected normally.
NTFS formatted Zip disks
The NT file system (NTFS) format is a fixed-disk file system, that locks the Zip disk
in the drive. After you access an NTFS-formatted Zip disk, you can no longer eject
the disk using the eject button on the front of the drive. To eject the Zip disk, you
must first close any windows listing the Zip disk contents, and then click Disk Eject.
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Emergency ejection of the Zip disk
The ThinkPad computer must be turned on to remove a Zip disk using the disk eject
button. If you lose power to the computer and must remove a disk from the drive,
follow these instructions:
1. Locate the emergency eject hole, which is located in the disk eject button.
2. Fully straighten a paper clip, and then gently push the straightened clip into the
emergency eject hole.
Attention
Use extreme caution when using the emergency eject hole. Excessive force or
a bent paper clip may damage the Zip drive.
Use the emergency ejection procedure only when the computer loses power. Do not
try to forcibly remove a Zip disk from the drive. If the drive does not eject the disk
immediately, repeat the emergency ejection procedure.
Zip drive tips
This section contains tips for using the ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive.
Following these tips will help you avoid problems with the drive.
Never force a Zip disk into or out of the drive.
Return the disk to its protective case after use.
Avoid exposing Zip disks or the Zip250 drive to direct sunlight, high
temperatures, moisture, or magnetic fields.
Attention
Never use ordinary 3.5-inch head-cleaning diskettes or 3.5 inch data diskettes in
the ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive. Doing so will damage the drive.
For more information about the use and care of the ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000
Drive, please refer to Appendix B, “Help and service”on page 2-3.
Using the IomegaWare Zip drive software
You must install the Zip drive device driver from the IomegaWare CD so that you can
use the utility programs that enable the Zip drive to work with the computer.
This section provides information on the basic features of the IomegaWare utilities.
For additional help, click on Get Help tab in IomegaWare.
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Formatting Zip disks
Use the format utility in Zip Tools to format a Zip disk.
To format a Zip disk, do the following:
1. Insert a Zip disk into the Zip250 drive. The LED will flash momentarily.
2. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the Zip drive icon.
3. Click Format.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Copying files to a Zip disk
To transfer files from the computer to a Zip disk, do the following:
1. Insert a Zip disk into the Zip250 drive. The LED will flash momentarily.
2. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, click the Zip cartridge icon or the Zip
drive letter.
3. Use the file-transfer procedure for the operating system to copy files from your
hard disk to the Zip disk.
Note: Do not use the Windows CopyDisk utility, the DOS DiskCopy utility, or
Microsoft Backup to copy files to a Zip disk. These utilities work only with
diskette drives.
Backing up data to a Zip cartridge
To back up data from the hard disk to a Zip disk, do the following:
1. Double-click the IomegaWare icon on the desktop.
2. Click the Applications tab.
3. Double-click the 1-Step Backup or the 1-Step Restore icon.
Installing software applications on a Zip disk
Software applications that do not come with the Zip drive option package might not
work with the Zip drive.
Some applications and games can be installed only on nonremovable media such as a
hard disk. To install these applications and games on a Zip disk, you must enable the
computer to recognize the Zip drive as a hard disk drive by doing the following:
1. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the Zip drive icon
2. Click Properties.
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3. Click the Iomega tab.
4. Select the check box next to Make disk nonremovable.
5. Your computer now recognizes the Zip drive as a hard disk drive, and you can
install your application.
Note: When you install some software applications, a
System Error
message might be displayed if there is no Zip cartridge in the Zip drive.
Insert a Zip cartridge (not included) in the Zip drive to continue the
software installation.
6. After the software installation is complete, right-click the Zip drive icon and
clear the box next to Make disk nonremovable to restore disk removability.
Read-protecting and write-protecting Zip cartridges
IomegaWare contains a read-protect and write-protect utility program for Windows that
you can use to do the following:
Write-protect a Zip cartridge without using a mechanical write-protect switch.
Assign a password that will be needed to disable write-protection on the Zip
cartridge.
Read-protect a Zip cartridge so that it cannot be read from, or written to, if the
user types the wrong password.
To read-protect or write-protect, do the following:
1. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the Zip drive icon.
2. Click Protect.
Note: If a Zip cartridge is not inserted in the drive, the Protect option will not
be available.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Repeat the steps to remove read-protection or write-protection.
Automatic sleep mode
The ThinkPad Zip250 Ultrabay 2000 Drive has an automatic sleep mode to reduce
power consumption and prolong the life of the ThinkPad battery. Sleep mode
automatically turns off the Zip drive after a set period of inactivity. The drive starts
again when it is accessed.
To change the sleep mode timer settings, do the following:
1. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the Zip drive icon.
2. Click Properties.
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3. Click the Iomega tab to set the sleep timer.
Special information for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows
2000 users
Note: This section describes how to use MSDOS mode, which is a startup option for
Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. It does not apply to the
MSDOS window that opens when you double-click the MSDOS prompt icon
within Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. Use of the MSDOS
window with the Zip drive is fully supported.
Operation of the Zip drive under Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000
MSDOS mode is not fully supported. Until full support is available, you must shut
down and restart the computer completely when switching to or from DOS for the Zip
drive to operate correctly. Do not use the Restart in MS-DOS mode option in the
Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 2000 shutdown window.
To switch to DOS mode, do the following:
1. Shut down and restart the computer.
2. As soon as the text
Starting Windows
displays, press F8 in Windows 95, or Ctrl in Windows 98. This message is
displayed just before the full-color Windows logo screen is displayed.
3. When the menu appears, use your arrow keys to scroll through the selections until
Command Prompt Only is highlighted.
4. Press Enter.
5. After the computer starts in DOS mode, run GUEST.EXE from the Program
Files\Iomega\Iomega Backup folder on drive C.
This procedure provides access to any Iomega drives connected to the computer. To
return to Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 2000, restart the computer.
Note: Do not type the command WIN at the DOS prompt after running GUEST.EXE.
This will cause drive letter duplication.
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