Portable CD-ROM User’ Manual For CD Traveler - PCMCIA CD Traveler Plus - PCMCIA and Parallel
TABLE OF CONTENT PART NAME AND FUNCTION TOP PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE REAR PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE BOTTOM OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE PARALLEL PORT ADAPTER CABLE 4 5 6 7 CD-ROM POWER SELECTING THE POWER SOURCE CONNECTING THE AC ADAPTER INSTALLING THE BATTERIES POWER SWITCH 7 9 9 10 INSTALLATION INSTALLATION FOR PCMCIA INTERFACE 12 HARDWARE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.
PLAY AN AUDIO CD BY USING SOFTWARE 26 TROUBLE SHOOTING PCMCIA INTERFACE PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE 28 32 REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DRIVER PCMCIA INTERFACE PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE 34 35 INSTALL A CD TITLE DOS/Windows 3.x Window 95/98 and Window NT 4.
PRECAUTIONS Read this section carefully before starting to use the Portable CD-ROM Plus. CD-ROM DRIVE • Do not place heavy objects on the CD-ROM drive. • Do not shake or subject to intense vibration. • Keeps disc cover closed to protect from dust. • Do not disassemble the player. • Do not spill liquid on the player. • Do not touch the lens. • The CD drive using invisible laser radiation when open, the cover avoid direct exposure to the beam.
CD-ROM PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS TOP PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE: • Open button: Press this button to open the disc cover. ‚ On/Busy led: • This indicator will light dimly with a green LED when the power is on. • This LED will light brightly when the drive is ready. • This LED will blink when the drive is accessing the disc. • This LED will blink every 2 seconds when the disc cover is opened. ƒ External Power led: • This LED will light when AC adapter or batteries are used.
• When the drive is in ‘play’ state, pressing the right edge of the button will skip to the next track. • When the drive is in ‘play’ state, pressing the left edge of the button will skip to the previous track. † Headphone Volume Control knob: Turn this rotary knob to adjust the headphone volume. ‡ Headphone jack: This is a 3.5mm audio headphone jack. ˆ Line-out jack: Audio outputs signal to an amplifier.
BOTTOM OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE: • PCMCIA Interface Card Holder: Store the PCMCIA interface card when not used. ‚ Battery Lid: Slide and lift up the lid to install or remove the batteries.
PARALLEL PORT ADAPTER CABLE: • Parallel port connector: Connect this connector to a computer (25 pin) parallel port (Printer port). ‚ CD-ROM drive connector: Connect this connector to the back of CD-ROM drive (26 pin) Figure 4 CD-ROM POWER There are three power source options to choose to power the CD Traveler: 1. PCMCIA socket power direct 2. AC adapter 3. Battery. However, you can use only AC adapter or batteries when the CD-ROM is used with the Parallel Port connection or as a stand-alone CD player.
POWER SOURCE SWITCH is set to “PC” (Figure 4.a) The PCMCIA power direct is selected. Thus, the CD-ROM will obtain power from PCMCIA socket of your computer, there for no external power (AC or batteries) will be required. In the event that your computer can not supply enough power Fig. 4.a to operate the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive, then you will have to use external power as described below. Do not set the switch to this position if you are using the Parallel Port connection.
CONNECTING THE AC ADAPTER 1. Remove the PCMCIA interface card or Parallel Port connector from your computer. 2. Connect the AC adapter plug to the DC-IN jack at the CD-ROM rear panel. 3. Attach the AC adapter to the AC outlet. INSTALLING THE BATTERIES The CD-ROM requires six AA size batteries (not included) for operation. The Alkaline batteries may last longer than other batteries. You may also use NiCad rechargeable batteries, which have a shorter service life.
POWER SWITCH Stand-alone CD player Pressing the POWER button (as shown in „ of Figure 2) will switch the CD drive power ‘on’ or ‘off’. The drive also has an inactivity timer, which automatically powered off if it has been idle more than 40 seconds. CD-ROM operation The POWER button will not function because the drive power is controlled by the computer. ON/BUSY LED (as shown in ‚ of Figure 1) The LED indicate four status of the CD-Drive: 1. Power On: The LED will light dimly 2.
• Always remove old, weak or worn-out batteries promptly and dispose of them properly. • If you do not use this unit for a long period of time, remove the batteries to avoid the possible battery leakage. • Thoroughly clean the battery compartment before inserting new batteries.
INSTALLATION The installation procedures have two sections for each type of interface. 1. PCMCIA(PC Card) interface 2. Parallel Port interface (option) The procedure includes hardware and software installation. Just follow along the interface of your choice. INSTALLATION FOR PCMCIA INTERFACE HARDWARE INSTALLATION If install on a Windows NT station, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the CD Traveler Plus to your computer.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 The “New Hardware Found” dialog box* will appear when you insert the CD CD Traveler Plus card under Windows 95 for the very first time. Select “Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer” and click on the OK button. Insert the CD Traveler Plus device driver disk into your floppy drive. (If the dialog box does not appear, please refer to the “Trouble Shooting” section.
For user with a newer revision of Windows 95 or Windows 98, “Update Device Driver Wizard” box * will appear. Click on “Next” button, let Windows 95 search for driver. Make sure to insert the CD device driver diskette into your floppy drive. (If the dialog box does not appear, please refer to the “Trouble Shooting” section.) Click on the “Finish” button. VERIFY YOUR INSTALLATION From “Desk Top” click on “My Computer” icon. Look for an addition CD-ROM drive’s icon.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 PC CARD Interface Currently there is no Plug and Play support for PC Card (PCMCIA) on the Windows NT 4.0. User can install the device driver without the PC Card, however after you finishing the installation you should insert the PC Card before restart the computer. Follow the instructions to install the device driver: Click on My Computer, then “Control Panel”, then “SCSI Adapters”. Choose Drivers tab and the click on “Add”.
Disk” button. Install from disk dialog box will prompt for device driver diskette. Either using “Browse” button or type in the path A:\winnt the click OK to finishing the installation. Make sure to insert the CD PC Card into the PC Card slot before restart the computer. VERIFY YOUR INSTALLATION After computer boot up from “Desk Top” click on “My Computer” icon. You should have an addition CD-ROM icon.
INSTALLATION FOR PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE HARDWARE INSTALLATION Before you begin, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the CD-ROM to your computer. 1. Connect the DC Input adapter cable to the EXP CD-ROM drive assembly. 2. Connect one end of the Parallel cable to EXP CD-ROM (26 pin small connector), and connect the other end to computer parallel port. (standard 25 connector) 3. Plug-in the AC adapter to a working AC receptacle. 4.
Select "No" and click "Next>". 2. Open "SCSI controllers". Click "Have Disk...". 3. Insert Installation Diskette into the drive selected, then click "OK". 4. If you're installing from a directory containing downloaded installation files, specify the full path of the directory and click "OK". 5. Select "PHT Parallel-Port PHT-Series Win95 Driver", and click "Next>". Click "Finish" to complete installation. 6. Remove Installation diskette.
7. Restart system, when prompted. VERIFY YOUR INSTALLATION From “desk top” click on “my computer” icon. There should be addition CDROM drive’s icon displayed.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 In Windows NT 4.0, you may select “Control Panel” under “Settings” from the “Start” menu to open the “Control Panel” folder, double click the “SCSI Adapter” icon) Click “Drivers” tab, and a figure illustrated as below will be displayed. Click “Add” button, and click “Have Disk...” button. Windows NT will then prompt you to insert the manufacturer installation disk. Insert the device driver disk into your floppy drive.
Click OK to select the driver. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue. After finishing, Windows NT will prompt you to restart your computer to activate the new device driver for Windows NT.
BASIC OPERATING PROCEDURES Follow the instructions listed below to open the disc cover and insert/remove a CD. Press the OPEN button. The disc cover will open slightly, and the ON/BUSY LED will blink as a warning signal. Figure 6 If there is no disc inside, go to next step. Otherwise, wait until the drive stops spinning. You may check if the disc stop by looking through the disc cover window. Lift the disc cover by the edges as shown in Figure 6.
INSTALLING THE APPLICATION SOFTWARE Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 From “Start” go to “Setting”, “ Control Panel” then “Add/Remove Program” Click on “Install” button. The installation program will search for ‘Setup.exe’ program from the CD-ROM. Usually the application will start automatically. If not click “Browse” button then open the sub-folder contain the setup program. Follow your application program instructions.
It is not necessary to remove the PCMCIA interface card from the CD-ROM drive when the CD-ROM is in stand-alone mode. You may store the card in the cardholder at the back panel of the drive. The following control buttons will be used in stand-alone mode. Power Button • Press the POWER button will turn on the PCMCIA CD-ROM in stand-alone mode. Press the POWER button again will turn off the drive. • The PCMCIA CD-ROM will spin in a lower speed (single speed) in standalone mode.
Headphone Jack • Connect your headphone to his jack for listening to audio CD. Line-Out Jack • Connect this jack to the LINE-IN jack of the sound card in your computer or an amplifier with a 3.5 mm audio cable for better sound quality from the audio CD. Play an Audio CD by Using Software You can use the CD audio software utilities in Windows 95 or Windows NT Windows 3.1 etc. to play the audio CD on your CD-ROM. Windows 95/98 and Windows NT incorporate an auto-run function for a CD Audio disk.
If your computer is equipped with a sound card, you can also connect the LINE-OUT jack of your CD-ROM to the LINE-IN jack of the sound card with a 3.5 mm audio cable. This will result in a better audio output from the speakers of the sound card. The CD-Audio sound will come out through the Line-Out or Headphone jack ONLY. The PLAY/PAUSE, NEXT/PREVIOUS buttons will still work in CD-ROM mode. However, these buttons should be used in audio CDs playing mode ONLY.
TROUBLE SHOOTING PCMCIA INTERFACE Symptom: No “New Hardware Found” dialog box display. Solution: 1. The EXP card is NOT fully inserted. The card status will show empty if Windows PCMCIA driver did not detect any card. Some time, there is other dialog box displayed, and the PC Card Properties still show empty. You may need to disable such a program (i.e. CardWork, CardWiz) consult your notebook User Manual. 2. The 32-bit card support is NOT enabled.
If you see the screen below, it means the PCMCIA device driver is not using 32-Bit Card Support. Follow on screen instructions by except all the default setting. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to restart the computer. After the computer restart, you can insert the EXP CD card, at this time the “New Hardware Found” or “Update Device Driver Wizard” dialog box will be displayed. 3.
The EXP entry may have a yellow circle with an exclamation point. This is an indication that the EXP CD did not working properly. Double click on EXP entry line and then select “Resources” You can make some change to the following entry: ‘Basic Configuration xxxx’, I/O Range, and Interrupt request. During resources changing, observe the “Conflicting Device List”.
2. Device Manager shows resource for the EXP CD is available and there is no conflicting device. In some computer, the I/O Range XXX, Interrupt Request 15 may be use by a built-in secondary IDE controller. Try changing the interrupt to 9,10 or 11. You can also try different I/O addresses. 3. The EXP entry may have a yellow circle with an exclamation point. Device Manager shows resource for the EXP CD is available and there is no conflicting device.
PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE Symptom: No additional drive icon in “My Computer”. The EXP CD driver installed without any incident. Solution: 1. Check your cable connection, along with the AC adapter at the wall receptacle make sure there is no lose connection. The green LED on the front of EXP CD assembly should lit up. 2. Check your computer CMOS or BIOS setup. Some computer allows user to set printer type to be: Standard, EPP Only or Bidirectional.
different setting can effect performance of the EXP CD. In some cases, the standard setting will even shut off signals the EXP CD needs, while if the same port is set to Bi-directional or EPP produce an excellent performance.
REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DRIVER PCMCIA INTERFACE If you need to remove or reinstalling the driver, make sure the EXP CDROM disk card is inserted. • Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Manager” Click on “Hard Disk Controller”. The EXP CD should be listed To remove EXP CD-ROM. • Click on the EXP entry line then click “Remove” button. You may need to restart the computer to complete the task. To reinstall EXP CD-ROM.
or “Update Device Driver Wizard” will be displayed. Follow the instruction on “Installation for PCMCIA Interface” section. PARALLEL PORT INTERFACE Go to “My Computer” icon, “Control Panel”, “System”,“ Device Manager” Click on “SCSI Controller ”. The EXP CD should be listed To remove EXP CD-ROM. • Click on the EXP entry line (F.I.T. …) then click “Remove” button. You may need to restart the computer to complete the task. To reinstall EXP CD-ROM.
INSTALL A CD TITLE DOS/Windows 3.x Most of the CD-ROM titles for Windows 3.1/3.11 contain the SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE program in the CD disc. You need to start either one of the programs to add a Program Group and its icons into your computer, and perform the following, 1) In Program Manager click File => Run 2) Type in D: (or the drive letter assigned for CD-ROM) SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE. 3) Follow the on-screen instructions. 4) After setup is completed, click the program icon to start the program.
Windows 95 The hot swapping is allowed with more limitation. To avoid system failure, always follow the below steps to hot remove the PCMCIA CD-ROM in Windows 95, 1) Click the PC card indicator on the task bar at the right bottom of screen. 2) Click the command to stop the card you want to remove. 3) Read the screen prompts instruction carefully. If the system prompts you not to remove the card, DO NOT remove the card. You should exit the present application and return to step 1.
APPENDIX A DEVICE DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR DOS PCMCIA Interface Automatic Installation The INSTALL program helps you install the device driver into your computer easily. Please follow the instructions below to proceed with automatic installation. 1. Insert the device driver diskette into a floppy disk drive on your computer. 2. Change the working directory to the floppy drive containing the device driver diskette by typing “A:” or “B:” then press ENTER. 3.
Manual Installation You may also manually install the Portable CD-ROM device driver if the default setting conflicts with your system. Please follow procedures below to complete this manual installation. 1. Copy the files EXPCDI.EXE from the Portable CD-ROM device driver disk to your hard disk. 2. Copy or locate the MSCDEX.EXE in your hard disk. Usually reside at C:\DOS or C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND 3. Add “LASTDRIVE=Z” to the TOP of your CONFIG.SYS file.
The example above shows the default setting. The /D: switch indicates the device name. It MUST be the same name as you specified by the /D: switch of EXPCDI.EXE in your CONFIG.SYS file. The /M: switch indicates how much memory to allocate for caching information on the CD-ROM. The default /M:4 caches 8KB. For more information about the switches of MSCDEX, please type “help MSCDEX” at the DOS prompt. 5. Now, reboot your computer to activate the CD-ROM drive.
remove the installation diskette and press Y and ENTER to re-boot the PC. Most CD-ROM programs require a minimum of a 286 processor with MSDOS 3.1 or MS-WINDOW 3.1, 640K RAM, and an EGA/VGA video card. Refer to the side of the CD-ROM package for program requirements, and enjoy! Access CD-ROM without Software Installation (Dynamic loading of the CD driver) This method of Dynamically Loading the CD driver offers a temporary install of the CD driver. It will not modify CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
use the CD-ROM device. For notebook computer users, removing the card will preserve power and prolong battery life. Note: You are allowed to remove and insert the PCMCIA CD-ROM from the computer at any time.
EXP COMPUTER, INC. EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS. NON-TRANSFERABLE LIMITED WARRANTY EXP COMPUTER INC., AND EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS ("EXP") warrants that the CD Traveler (“products”) manufactured or distributed by EXP to be free from failures due to defects in materials or workmanship for a full one year from the date of purchase of the products.
