PCMCIA Portable HARD DISK Installation Manual HD Traveler
EXP COMPUTER, INC. EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS. NON-TRANSFERABLE LIMITED WARRANTY EXP COMPUTER INC., AND EXP MEMORY PRODUCTS("EXP") warrants that the Disk 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.
INTRODUCTION Table of Content INTRODUCTION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FEATURES PART NAME AND FUNCTIONS 1 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 3 The HD Traveler is a portable compact hard disk drive, which consists of a low-power hard disk drive, a Game Port, and a PCMCIA interface card. It is compatible with most computer equipped with a PCMCIA 2.1 Type I or II slot. The HD Traveler comes equipped with an 5V, DC external power jack in case your notebook’s PCMCIA slot cannot supply enough power needed by the HD Traveler.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Before you begin, make sure you turn OFF all power to your system before connecting the HD TRAVELER to your computer. PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS 1. Connect the PCMCIA interface card to the HARD DISK drive. Press firmly until the HARD DISK connector is seated, and then tighten the two screws on the cable connector. 2. Place the HARD DISK drive in the horizontal position, (recommended) 3. Interface Connector 26-pin male connector connects to PCMCIA card’s female adapter 3.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.1 AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION The device driver installation programs provide a simple INSTALL program to help you to install the device driver into the computer with ease. Please follow the instructions below to proceed 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 manually install the HD TRAVELER device driver if the default setting conflicts with your system. Try the following procedure to complete the manual installation. 1) Copy the file named EXPHDG.EXE to a directory on your main hard disk. ( i.e. C:\PCMHD). 2) Edit the config.sys add the following line at the end of the file. DEVICE=[drive] [path] EXPHDG.EXE /P:320 [/G] /P is used to set the I/O ports, and the valid numbers are 320, 340 and 360.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95 USING THE HD TRAVELER UNDER WINDOWS 95 The following dialog box will appear when you use the HD TRAVELER under Windows 95 for the very first time. If the dialog box does not appear and the additional hard disk folder can not be found in My Computer, please refer to the section titled “Enabling 32-Bit Card Support”.
REMOVING OR RE-INSTALLING THE DRIVER You can always change the configuration by removing the driver and reinstalling again. To remove the driver A.) If previous installed as “ Hard Disk Only”: With the HD Traveler connected, go to the Control Panel, click on System, then choose “Device Manager”, and under “hard disk controllers” click the “+” sign to expand this list and then highlight “EXP PCMCIA HD”. Then click the “Remove” button. B.
In this case, double click the PCMCIA Controller and a dialog box will be displayed as below. Please place a check mark next to the current configuration of the Device usage box, and then select OK. CHANGING A DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNED TO HD TRAVELER In some case user need to change a drive letter for the HD Traveler, for example, from “D” drive to “E” drive, please follow the instructions below.
INSTALL THE WINDOWS NT 4.0 DEVICE DRIVER Currently there is no Plug and Play support for the Windows NT 4.0, User need to insert the HD PC Card while the power is off. Restart the computer and click on My Computer , then Control Panel, choose SCSI Adapters. Choose Drivers tab and the click on Add.. From the Install Driver click Have Disk GAME PORT CALIBRATION The game port on the HD Traveler requires I/O address 200 to 207.
PCMCIA SOFTWARE (DOS/WINDOWS3.X) INFORMATION If you have installed the PCMCIA software, such as SystemSoft’s CardSoft or Databook’s Cardtalk, then EXPHDG.EXE will call these PCMCIA software to enable the card. If you don’t have one, EXPHDG.EXE 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.
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:\CARSOFT\SS36SSL.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CS.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CSALLOC.EXE REM** The REM’s should be removed from the follwing 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.
POWER SAVING APPENDIX A The HD TRAVELER drive will automatically enter the sleep mode (spindle off) when it has not been accessed for about 4 minutes. GAME PORT INCOMPATIBLE LIST The “Hot insert/remove” feature of a PCMCIA card helps to save power.
APPENDIX B WINDOWS 95’s MS-DOS Mode for the HD Traveler This procedure will allow you to use the HD Traveler in a pure MS-DOS environment for those applications that will not run in Windows 95. An MS-DOS mode icon is set up with a separate config.sys and autoexec.bat will be run when the icon is used.
Click on the “Advanced” • • • • Click the “MS-DOS mode” Click on “Specify a new MS-DOS configuration” Click on “OK”. Then click on “OK”. This is the end of the DOS mode icon setup. The Next step is to configure the DOS mode session for the DOS drivers that are needed to run the Hard disk/game card. If you have a config.dos and autoexec.dos file on the “C” drive. Just put the lines that are missing in the corresponding boxes. If you do not have these files just continue without it.
