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. [. . . ] Press down on the cartridge until it locks into place. The drive begins to spin up the cartridge, and the Drive Activity LED flickers. 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. 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. If the Drive Activity LED does not flicker, unmount the cartridge using the SyQuest Windows 95 Utility, or use the SyQuest Unlock utility in Windows 3. 1x. 5. Remove the cartridge and place it in its protective case. Always store the cartridge in its protective case. ® ® Caution: Never store or transport the EZFlyer drive with the cartridge partially inserted. Leaving a cartridge partially inserted, or transporting the EZFlyer drive with the cartridge inserted, may damage the drive and void your warranty. 18 230 MB Portable SCSI Removable Cartridge Disk Drive Ejecting the Cartridge without Power In the event of a power failure, you can remove the cartridge using the manual eject hole. 1. Wait at least one minute after the power fails before you perform this procedure. 2. Locate the manual eject hole on the bottom of the drive. The manual eject hole is a small round hole on the bottom of the EZFlyer drive. 3. Insert a straightened paper clip into the manual eject hole on the bottom of the drive. The cartridge will eject partway. Manual Eject Hole Caution: Be careful not to hold the EZFlyer drive with the drive door facing down. Remove the cartridge and place it in its protective case. Installation Guide for PC Compatible Systems 19 Write-protecting the Cartridge You can use the EZFlyer drive's write-protect software (part of the SyQuest Utilities) to prevent data on the cartridge from being altered or erased. You can use SyQuest Utilities under DOS, Windows 3. 1x, and Windows 95. Caution: The silver Read Only switch on 135 MB or 230 MB cartridges does not write-protect the cartridge in your EZFlyer drive. [. . . ] Update the path of device drivers loaded from drives other than the C: drive. · Update the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC. BAT file to correctly refer to new drive letters. · Update all batch files to reference the proper drive letters. · Update all Windows . INI files and your Windows groups for new drive letters. · Rerun INSTALL or SETUP of your application program if the reference drive letter cannot be changed. · Update the network LOGIN script as necessary to reflect the new drive letters. · REMOUNT the compressed drives if you are using DOS compression. · Update Windows 3. 1x icons by first selecting the icon and then selecting Properties under the Program Manager File menu. Installation Guide for PC Compatible Systems 29 OS/2 Drive Letter Assignment When OS/2 boots, drive letters are assigned in the following order: · · · · · · · EIDE primary partitions (drive 0 followed by drive 1, and so on) SCSI primary partitions SyQuest SCSI Drive primary partitions EIDE logical partitions SCSI logical partitions SyQuest SCSI Drive logical partitions Removable media drives Reserving More Drive Letters (OS/2) When OS/2 boots, OS/2 reserves one drive letter for a primary partition and a drive letter for each logical partition that OS/2 finds on the cartridge. If you plan to interchange cartridges that have different numbers of partitions, you can force OS/2 to reserve additional drive letters by modifying the OS2DASD. DMD statement to include: /NUMVOL:u, n where u is the physical hard disk index (0 for the boot drive, 1 for the second drive, and so on) and n is the number of drive letters to reserve to a maximum of four. 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. [. . . ]