CD TRAVELER USER’S MANUAL CD TRAVELER WITH PORTABLE CD-ROM CARD
CONTENTS PRECAUTIONS .......................................................................................... 1 CD-ROM DRIVE ...................................................................................... 1 CD .......................................................................................... 1 PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS................................................................... 2 TOP PANEL OF THE CD-ROM DRIVE....................................................
PRECAUTIONS Read this section carefully before start using the portable PCMCIA CD-ROM. CD-ROM DRIVE • Do not place heavy objects on the CD-ROM drive. • Do not shake or subject to intense vibration. • Keep disc cover closed to protect from dust. • Do not disassemble the player. • Do not spill liquid. • Do not touch the lens. • Clean the outside of the player with a soft, dry cloth. • Clean the lens with a dry cotton swab or a lens blower.
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 battery is 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: Pack the PCMCIA interface card when not used. ‚ Battery Lid: Slide and lift up the lid to install or remove the batteries.
CD-ROM POWER There are three power source options to use with the portable PCMCIA CD-ROM: 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 as a stand-alone CD player. SELECT THE POWER SOURCE The POWER SOURCE SWITCH (as shown in ‚ of Figure 2) is for selecting which power source to use. POWER SOURCE SWITCH is set to “PC” (Figure 4.a) The PCMCIA power direct is selected.
CONNECT THE AC ADAPTER 1. Remove the PCMCIA interface card 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. CAUTION Use only the AC adapter provided with this unit or refer to the rear panel of the drive for the correct AC adapter. Using the incorrect AC adapter will cause permanent and unpredictable damage to the CD-ROM. INSTALL THE BATTERIES The CD-ROM requires six AA size batteries (not included) for operation.
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.
NOTICE • Use only the AC adapter provided with this unit or refer to the rear panel of the drive for correct AC adapter specification. • If you will not use the unit with the AC adapter for a long period of time, disconnect it from the AC power outlet. • Do not mix old and new batteries, or different type of batteries (Ni-Cad and alkaline, etc.) • Always remove old, weak or worn-out batteries promptly and dispose of them properly.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Before you begin, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the PCMCIA CD-ROM to your computer. 1. Turn over the CD-ROM drive, locate the PCMCIA interface card at the back of the CDROM drive. Lift and take out the card from the holder as shown in Figure 6. 2. Place the CD-ROM drive upright in the horizontal position. 3. Make sure that the PCMCIA interface cable is firmly connected to the interface connector at the back panel of the CD-ROM drive. 4.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95 DO NOT RUN “INSTALL” FROM THE DRIVER DISKETTE. If your computer does not have Windows 95 installed yet, please refer to the section titled “Using PCMCIA CD-ROM to Install Windows 95”. Use the PCMCIA CD-ROM with Windows 95 Due to the Plug-N-Play feature in Windows 95. The following dialog box will appear when the PCMCIA CD-ROM is inserted into the PCMCIA slot for the very first time.
When the following dialog box appear, select PCMCIA CD-ROM (I) card and click on the OK button. Figure 9 Follow the on-screen instruction to continue. After finishing, if you are prompt to shutdown and restart Windows 95 please do so. Otherwise there should be a CD icon in ‘My Computer’ icon. Note: In Windows 95 it is not necessary to connect the PCMCIA CD-ROM every time you reboot your computer; inserted the CD’s Card when you need to use it.
Enable 32-bit Card Support of Windows 95 To verify first, double-click on the “System” icon from “Control Panel” folder (you can select the “Control Panel” under “Settings” from the “Start” menu to open the “Control Panel” folder). Click on the Device Manager Tab. If “PCMCIA Socket” is found with a cross (x) sign next to the PCMCIA Controller as the following figure shows, it means the PCMCIA device driver is not using 32-Bit Card Support.
In this case, double click on the PCMCIA Controller, and a dialog box will be displayed as below. Please place a check mark next to the current configuration of Device usage box, then select OK. Figure 11 After the PCMCIA 32-Bit Card support is installed, Windows will ask you to reboot your computer. Then you should refer to the first section titled “Using CD-ROM Under Windows 95” to configure the PCMCIA CD-ROM. If the PCMCIA Socket is not found, then you must add a PCMCIA socket to your system.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 There are different ways to install the Windows NT drivers for CDROM. The way describe here is the best way we have found the drivers will work with most computers. Install the CD-ROM under Windows NT 4.0 This procedure will install CD-ROM drive as additional storage device. Shutdown the system, turn the power switch off. Insert the CD-ROM PC into the slot then restart the computer. Once the system comes up Go to Start, Setting, and Control Panel.
Under Install Driver window select ‘Have Disk..’ button. Figure 13 Windows NT ‘s driver installation program will search the disk and display the model of the CD-ROM, click OK. Reboot the computer when prompt.
Using the PCMCIA CD-ROM to Install Windows NT 4.0 Boot up the computer using either a Windows NT boot disk, which should have our CD-ROM drivers on them or DOS bootable diskette with CD-ROM driver. Start with WinNT32 /b or WinNT /b (if you boot from DOS). This will install Windows NT without copying to floppy disks. There will be a point where the installation program will ask you for a Mass Storage device. You have to skip that and do not providing any drivers.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS Automatic Installation The INSTALL program helps you install the device driver into the 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. At the DOS prompt (A:\> or B:\>), type “INSTALL” followed by the ENTER key. 4.
6. The rest of the installation should proceed automatically, and the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files on your computer will be updated. 7. Reboot your computer and the CD-ROM drive will be defined as the next available drive letter. For example, if the last hard drive of the computer is drive C, the CD-ROM drive will be assigned to be drive D automatically. Manual Installation You may also manually install the PCMCIA CD-ROM device driver if the default setting conflicts with your system.
Note: If your AUTOEXEC.BAT file loads a menu program such as DOSSHELL or Windows, you have to add the above line to start your menu program. Otherwise, MSCDEX will not have a chance to load before your menu program begins. 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.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR OS/2 WARP Before installing PCMCIA CD-ROM device driver for OS/2 WARP, make sure the PCMCIA support is enable. If you are not sure about this, please refer to the last part of this section “Add PCMCIA Support”. Automatic Installation For automatic installation of the PCMCIA CD-ROM for OS/2 WARP, follow the below steps, 1. Insert the device driver disk into a floppy disk drive on your computer. 2. Open OS/2 System. 3. Open Drives. 4.
Manual Installation You may also install the PCMCIA CD-ROM OS/2 device driver manually, if the default setting conflicts with your system. Perform the following procedure to complete the manual installation. 1. Copy EXPCD2.FLT file from A:\OS2WARP to the BOOT sub-directory of OS/2 directory (for example: C:\OS2\BOOT.) 2. Add the following line to the BOTTOM of your CONFIG.SYS file: BASEDEV=EXPCD2.FLT /P:1 /I:15 The parameters of EXPCD2.
Figure 16 1. Select the check box to the left of the PCMCIA Support to display the Select PCMCIA system window. 2. Select the appropriate system (this should either be a direct match with your target install system or a known compatible system). Select OK. 3. Select Install. 1. Follow the on-screen instructions to carry through the installation.
BASIC OPERATING PROCEDURES Follow the instructions listed below to open the disc cover and insert/remove a CD. 1. Press the OPEN button. The disc cover will slightly opened, and the ON/BUSY LED will blink as a warning signal. 1. If there is no disc inside, go to next step. Otherwise, wait until the drive stop spinning. You may check if the disc stop by seeing through the disc cover window. 2. Lift the disc cover by the edges as shown in Figure 18. Figure 18 3.
USE THE PCMCIA CD-ROM AS A STAND-ALONE CD PLAYER In a stand-alone audio CD player operation, the CD need either AC adapter or batteries for its power source, remember to set the POWER SOURCE SWITCH to “DC/BATT”. Refer to the section titled “CD-ROM POWER SOURCE” for details. 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 pack the card in the card holder at the back panel of the drive.
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. USE THE PCMCIA CD-ROM WITH A COMPUTER Check the power source switch set it according to the power source.
2) Choose the Drivers icon from Control Panel, and choose the Add button to set up the driver [MCI] CD Audio. 3) Start the Media Player. 4) Select Device CD Audio from the menu bar. 5) Click the play button on the screen to start it. 6) Connect headphones set to the Headphone Jack 1) If your computer is equipped with a sound card, you can also connect the LINEOUT jack of your CD-ROM to the LINE-IN jack of the sound card with a 3.5 mm audio cable.
INSTALL A CD TITLE DOS/Windows 3.x Most of the CD-ROM titles for Windows 3.1/3.11 contains the SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE program in the CD disc. User needs 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 complete setting up, click the icon for the program.
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.
PCMCIA SOFTWARE INFORMATION (DOS/WINDOWS 3.1) If you have installed the PCMCIA software, such as SystemSoft’s CardSoft or Databook’s Cardtalk, then the PCMCIA CD-ROM device driver will call this PCMCIA software to enable the card. If you don’t have one, the PCMCIA CD-ROM device driver still can directly access your hardware to enable the card. In this case, your computer should have an Intel 82365SL Personal Computer Interface Controller (PCIC) or another compatible controller.
The device driver names of the major PCMCIA software are listed below: Software/Device Driver Socket Services SystemSoft CardSoft Phoenix Award IBM Cardware ThinkPad SS365SL.EXE, PCMSS.EXE SSPCIC.EXE IBMDSS02.SYS PCMCS.EXE PCCS.EXE IBMDOSCS.SYS PCMRMAN.SYS PCRM.EXE DICRMU02.SYS SS365LP.EXE, SSCIRRUS.EXE, SSDBOOK.EXE, SVADEM.EXE, SSVLSI.EXE Card Services CS.EXE Resource CSALLOC.EXE Initialization Utility IDE/ATA Driver ATADRV.EXE SRAM Card Driver MTSRAM.EXE Flash Card Support MTAA.
SYSTEMSOFT PCMCIA SOFTWARE SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS FILE LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-D3FF FILES=40 BUFFERS=20 STACKS=9,256 DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\SS36SSL.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CS.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CSALLOC.EXE REM** The REM’s should be removed from the following REM** lines to enable memory and hard drive card support REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTSRAM.EXE REM** DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.
DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCCS.EXE DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCRM.EXE/AUTODETECT DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\PCENABLE.EXE DEVICE=C:\CDROM\EXPCDI.EXE /P:1 /I:15 /D:MSCD001 IBM PCMCIA SOFTWARE SAMPLE CONFIG.SYS FILE LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF /MACHINE:2 DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF BUFFERS=40 FILES=40 STACKS=9,256 DOS=HIGH DEVICEHIGH=C:\THINKPAD\IBMDSS02.SYS /S0=2 DEVICEHIGH=C:\THINKPAD\IBMDOSCS.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:THINKPAD\DICRMU02.SYS /MA=D000-DFFF DEVICEHIGH=C:\THINKPAD\$ICPMDOS.
POWER SAVING The PCMCIA CD-ROM is designed to save power. − Built-in inactivity timer for about 40 seconds in stand-alone mode, the power will be turned off automatically. − when used with the computer, the drive will automatically enter the sleep mode (spindle off) when it has not been accessed for about 1 minutes. − if you remove the Compact Disc (CD) from your CD-ROM drive, the drive will manually get into the sleep mode.
TROUBLE SHOOTING This section explains the most common error messages users may encounter. DOS/Windows After rebooting your computer, the following messages will be displayed on your screen, which are generated by EXPCDI.EXE and MSCDEX.EXE. Configure card to: I/O Port:170-177, 376-377 IRQ number: 15 Device Name: MSCD001 PCMCIA CD-ROM card is present in socket 1 . . . Drive D: = Driver MSCD001 unit 0 If any error occurs or the PCMCIA CD-ROM does not work, you should reboot your computer again.
v Error: Illegal I/O port! The above message means invalid I/O ports in the EXPCDI line of CONFIG.SYS has been selected. The legal I/O port numbers are: 1, 2, and 3. v Error: Illegal IRQ number! The above message means an invalid IRQ number in EXPCDI line of CONFIG.SYS has been selected. The legal IRQ numbers are 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15. v Error: There is no available 4K memory for mapping! The above message means EXPCDI can't find available 4K memory between C000:0 to EFFF:0.
WINDOWS 95 CD-Traveler with sound option. v CD-ROM drive icon does not show in ‘My Computer’ Reinstall the driver and choose ‘CD-ROM Only’. Go to Start, Setting, Control Panel, System and the Device Manager. Double click on Multi-function adapter, select Driver, click on the Update Driver or Change Driver button. All CD-Traveler card. v I run ‘Install’ from the device driver diskette, the program indicate NOT for Windows 95.
