User manual SYQUEST EZ230 PORTABLE SCSI

[. . . ] ® 230 MB Portable SCSI Removable Cartridge Disk Drive Installation Guide for PC Compatible Systems Welcome to SyQuest® Thank you for buying a SyQuest removable cartridge disk drive, a truly unique combination of powerful features and performance. Our goal is to make your drive an invaluable asset for years to come, starting today. If you have questions or need assistance installing your drive, please contact SyQuest. SyQuest® Technology is located at 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA, 94538-6517. SyQuest's main phone number is 510-226-4000, which has a 24-hour automated system to help direct your calls. [. . . ] Select Device Driver Install from System Setup. Change the source from A:\ to Install. If B: is your 3. 5-inch diskette drive, change the source from B:\ to B:\OS2. A:\OS2 and click 4. Click SyQuest SCSI Device and click OK. Installation Guide for PC Compatible Systems 15 Inserting the Cartridge The EZFlyer drive reads, writes, and formats SyQuest 135 MB and 230 MB cartridges. The drive cannot read, write, or format other SyQuest cartridges. 1. Hold the cartridge as shown in the figure below. Open the drive door with the cartridge corner. Cartridge corner er ezfly R EM OVA TM BL A EC 23 RT R IDG B 0M 0 A EH RD DR IVE Drive Door Note: You can insert SyQuest cartridges with the drive power on or off. 3. Slide the cartridge into the drive until it stops. 4. Press down on the cartridge until it locks into place. The drive begins to spin up the cartridge, and the Drive Activity LED flickers. The LED will glow steadily green when the drive is ready. Caution: If you drop your EZFlyer drive, do not test it or insert a cartridge to see if it was damaged by the drop. Contact your SyQuest reseller for instructions. 16 230 MB Portable SCSI Removable Cartridge Disk Drive ® Removing the Cartridge Use this procedure to remove the cartridge when changing cartridges or transporting your EZFlyer drive. Always remove the EZFlyer cartridge before transporting your EZFlyer drive. 1. Verify that the power LED glows green. The EZFlyer drive should always be switched on when you eject a cartridge. 2. Exit out of all applications that use the cartridge and close all open files on the cartridge. You may lose data if you eject the cartridge before closing all open files on the cartridge. 3. Unlock the cartridge. DOS users: Type UNLOCK at a DOS prompt. Windows 3. 1x users: Double-click the SyQuest Unlock Utility icon, select the EZFlyer drive letter and click Ok. Windows 95 users: From My Computer or Explorer, click the right mouse button on the EZFlyer drive icon and select eject from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, you can use the SyQuest Windows 95 Utilities to eject the cartridge. Windows NT users: Windows NT automatically locks and unlocks the cartridge. You do not need to manually unlock the cartridge to remove the cartridge. OS/2 users: Select the EZFlyer drive icon, click the right mouse button, and select the Unlock menu item. Installation Guide for PC Compatible Systems 17 4. Press the eject button on the front of the EZFlyer drive. The Drive Activity LED will flicker, the drive door will open, and the cartridge will pop out of the drive after a few seconds. [. . . ] For example, to reserve three drive letters for drive 1, change the OS2DASD. DMD statement in CONFIG. SYS: from BASEDEV=OS2DASD. DMD to BASEDEV=OS2DASD. DMD /NUMVOL:1, 3 30 230 MB Portable SCSI Removable Cartridge Disk Drive Using the Visit Program to Manage Drive Letters SyQuest SCSI drives may be temporarily installed on PCs using the Visit program. Visit loads the required device drivers and allows you to quickly attach and software-connect a SyQuest SCSI drive while the computer is operating--you need not even reboot the system. Visit assigns a new drive letter (after all other drive letters are assigned in the normal order) for the SyQuest SCSI drive. The drive is accessible as a removable cartridge disk drive using the newly-assigned drive letter. [. . . ]