Sony RMO-S551 User manual

SMO-F551 / RMO-S551
Magneto-Optical
Disk Drive
Installation Guide 1.3

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Contents
Installation Procedure on DOS and Windows3.1 3
Installation Procedure on Windows95/98 5
Installation Procedure on WindowsNT 7
Installation Procedure on SUN Systems 9
Installation Procedure on SGI Systems 11
Installation Procedure on HP Systems 15
Installation Procedure on SCO Systems 18
Appendix 19
Printing History
July 24, 1998 Version 1.1
March 1, 1999 Version 1.2
November 1, 1999 Version 1.3
Note:
SMO-F551 / RMO-S551 support many kind of MO media, but all kind of MO media can not
be used in each Operation System. (Refer page19 table-1,-2) Please choose suitable
MO media in accordance with supported media table.

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Installation Procedure on DOS and Windows3.1
Requirements:
1. SCSI host adapter
SCSI host adapter controls the command and data transfer between MO drive and host
computer. (Ex. AHA-2940, AHA-3940 of Adaptec)
2. Device driver
Device driver controls MO drive. Device driver is almost supplied with SCSI host
adapter. If you use RMO-S551, we recommend to use the “Formatter One Pro TM”
bundled with RMO-S551.
3. SCSI cable
SCSI cable is used for connecting host adapter and MO drive. Please select proper
SCSI cable.
4. Format utility software
Format utility software is used to format the media and make partitions. Format utility
software is often supplied with SCSI host adapter. (e.g. ASPI manager and ASPI driver
for AHA-29xx are provided from Adaptec) But if you use RMO-S551, we recommend to
use the “Formatter One ProTM” bundled with RMO-S551.
Installation:
1) Connection
- Set the SCSI host adapter into the host computer.
- Attach the MO drive to the SCSI host adapter using proper SCSI cable.
- Set proper SCSI ID and termination on the MO drive.
2) Install the device driver
- Turn on the MO drive and host computer.
- Install the device driver on DOS level or on Windows3.1 and reboot host computer.
3) Format the media and partition
- Format and Label the media using a format utility tool, such as “Formatter One ProTM”.

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Note:
- DOS and Window3.1 limit one partition size to 2.1GB. Please make a partition under
2.1GB per partition.
- “Formatter One ProTM” supports all kind of MO media (4.1GB, 4.8GB, 5.2GB), but some
device driver does not support 4.8GB or 5.2GB media. Please confirm the proper media
before using the device driver. If you have any questions, please contact your dealer of
the device driver.
- DOS and Windows3.1 do not support WORM media.
- Before rebooting a host PC, please don’t replace other media of a different sector size.

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Installation Procedure on Windows95/98
Requirement:
1. SCSI host adapter
SCSI host adapter controls the command and data transfer between MO drive and host
computer. (Ex. AHA-2940, AHA-3940 of Adaptec) Most of SCSI host adapters are
supported by Windows95/98.
2. Device driver
Device driver controls MO drive. Windows95/98 encloses the device driver on
installation CD-ROM or floppy disk. If you use RMO-S551, we recommend to use the
“Formatter One ProTM” bundled with RMO-S551.
3. SCSI cable
SCSI cable is used for connecting host adapter and MO drive. Please select proper
SCSI cable.
4. Format utility software
Format utility software is used to format the media and make partitions. Format utility
software is often supplied with SCSI host adapter. If you use RMO-S551, we
recommend to use the “Formatter One ProTM” bundled with RMO-S551.
Installation:
1) Connection
- Set the SCSI host adapter into the host computer.
- Attach the MO drive using proper SCSI cable.
- Set proper SCSI ID and termination on the MO drive.
2) No device driver
2)-1 Preparation
- Turn on the drive and insert the media.
- Turn on the power of the host system and boot Windows95/98.
2)-2 To detect the connected hardware
- Click the Start button, point to Setting, a system and boot Windows95/98.
- Click Add New Hardware icon.
- Follow the instructions on display
2)-3 Format and Label the media
- Double-click My Computer icon to view various drive icons.
- Highlight the Removable drive icon
- Point on File, and click Format option to initialize and label media.

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3) Install the device driver
3)-1 Preparation
- Turn on the MO drive and host computer.
- Install the device driver on Windows95/98 and reboot the host computer. (Please refer
to the user’s guide of the Device Driver)
3)-2 Format the media and partition
- Format and Label the media using format utility software, such as “Formatter One Pro
TM”.
Note:
- Windows95/98 limits one partition size to 2.1GB, please make a partition under 2.1GB
per partition.
- Don’t use floppy format for 4.8GB and 5.2GB Media, because the partition size is over
2.1GB.
- “Formatter One ProTM” supports all kind of MO media (4.1GB, 4.8GB, 5.2GB), but some
device driver or native Windows95/98 system do not support 4.8GB or 5.2GB media.
Please confirm the proper media before using the device driver. If you have any
question, please contact your dealer of the device driver.
- Windows95/98 does not support WORM media.
- Before rebooting a host PC, please don’t replace other media of a different sector size.

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Installation Procedure on WindowsNT
Requirement:
1. SCSI host adapter
SCSI host adapter controls the command and data transfer between MO drive and host
computer. (Ex. AHA-2940, AHA-3940)
2. Device driver
Device driver controls MO drive. WindowsNT include the Device Driver. If you use
RMO-S551, we recommend to use the “Formatter One Pro TM” is supplied with RMO-
S551.
3. SCSI cable
SCSI cable is used for connecting host adapter and MO drive. Please select proper
SCSI cable.
4. Format Utility software
Format utility software is used to format media and make partitions. Format utility is
often supplied with SCSI host adapter. If you use RMO-S551, we recommend to use the
“Formatter One ProTM” bundled with RMO-S551.
Installation:
1) Connection
- Set the SCSI host adapter into the host computer.
- Attach the MO drive using proper SCSI cable.
- Set proper SCSI ID and termination on the MO drive.
2) No device driver
2)-1 Preparation
- Turn on the drive and insert the media.
- Turn on the power of the host system and boot WindowsNT.
- Let it Autoconfigure the hardware.
2)-2 Format the media and partition
a) Click the Start button and point to Program “Administrative Tools”.
Click on Disk Administrator
- Verify to write signature to the media.
- Highlight the drive icon to be partitioned.
- Click on File, then Create Partition
- Choose partition parameters and click OK.
- Close Disk Administrator....save changes when asked.

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b) Click on Disk Administrator again
- Highlight the partitioned drive icon.
- Click on Tools, then Format.
Choose format type (see Notes) and volume label name.
- Format the media.
- Close Disk Administrator.
3) Install the device driver
3)-1 Preparation
- Login WindowsNT
- Install the device driver on WindowsNT and reboot the host computer. (Please refer to
the user’s guide of the Device Driver)
3)-2 Format the media and partition
- Format and Label the media using format utility software, such as “Formatter One Pro
TM”.
Note:
- There are two format types that Disk Administrator supports.
1) FAT: allows media to be removed easily.
2) NTFS: ‘locks’ the media into the drive.
- “Formatter One Pro TM” support only FAT16 file system. If you would like to use NTFS
file system, please use disk administrator after logining as administrator.
- “Formatter One ProTM” supports all kind of MO media (4.1GB, 4.8GB, 5.2GB), but some
device driver or native WindowsNT system do not support 4.8GB or 5.2GB media.
Please confirm the proper media before using the device driver. If you have any
question, please contact your dealer of the device driver.
- When you format 4.8GB or 5.2GB media using disk administrator, please select NTFS
file system.
- WindowsNT does not support WORM media.
- Before rebooting a host PC, please don’t replace other media of a different sector size.

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Installation Procedure on SUN System
Test equipment:
The following procedure was confirmed with the following system and drive combination:
Host: SUN Ultra Enterprise 450
OS: Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6
Target: RMO-S551
- device type is set to 0
- 512 byte/sector media is used.
Since the SCSI driver “sd” which comes with the SUN’s UNIX system is for device type 0
(hard disk drive, in general), the cases with device type 7 or 1024 bytes/sector media are
not supported.
Installation:
1) Connection
- Set the SCSI host adapter into the host computer using proper SCSI cable.
- Set proper SCSI ID on the MO drive.
- Set proper termination.
- Set the Device Type 0.
2) Login
- Turn on the MO drive and the host computer.
- Login as root or be a super user with “su” command.
3) Format and partition
To make a disk accessible, perform the following three command:
- ‘format’: using to format media.
- ‘newfs’: using to make file system.
- ‘mount’: using to mount media.
Create a ‘format.dat’ file prior to issuing the ‘format’ command
4) Edit “format.dat” file
- add following configuration to the “format.dat”.
#
# This is a list of sample Sony 5.25 inch MO disk configurations.
#
disk_type = "ISO 4X MO disk, 1150MB" ¥
: ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 2 ¥
: ncyl = 2261 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 2263 : nhead = 32 : nsect = 31¥
: rpm = 3600 : bpt = 15872
disk_type = "ISO 8X MO disk, 2035MB" ¥

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: ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 2 ¥
: ncyl = 4003 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 4005 : nhead = 32 : nsect = 31 ¥
: rpm = 3300 : bpt = 15872
#
# This is a list of sample partition tables for Sony 5.25 inch MO disk.
#
partition = "ISO 4X MO disk, 1150MB" ¥
: disk = "ISO 4X MO disk, 1150MB" : ctlr = SCSI ¥
: 0 = 0 , 0 : 1 = 0, 0 : 2 = 0, 2242912 :
partition = "ISO 8X MO disk, 2035MB" ¥
: disk = "ISO 8X MO disk, 2035MB" : ctlr = SCSI ¥
: 0 = 0 , 0 : 1 = 0, 0 : 2 = 0, 3970976 :
Note:
- SUN System supports only 512 byte/sector MO media, you can use 2.3GB and 4.1GB
media. If you would like to use 1024 byte/sector or 2048 byte/sector media, please use
a proper device driver software for SUN system.