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MAGICSPIN
Internal ATAPI / Enhanced IDE CD-ROM
USER’S GUIDE
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Dear I/OMAGIC Customer: Congratulations on the purchase of your new MagicSpin CD-ROM Upgrade Kit. We can assure you that it is made from state-of-the-art chipsets and components. Your product has also gone through the most rigorous testing and quality assurance procedures in the industry. All of the employees at I/OMAGIC want to express our sincere gratitude for your decision to purchase our product. Our commitment to you is to provide products that are easy to install and use. I/OMa
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Notice: I/OMAGIC Corporation makes no warranty of any kind with regards to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular product. I/OMAGIC Corporation shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate. I/OMAGIC Corporat
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 5 System Requirements .........................................................................................................................................5 Installation Instructions ....................................................................................................................................
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Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your MagicSpin CD-ROM. The purpose of this document is to provide you with installation instructions for your new kit. If this is your first installation with this type of product, please read the entire manual before you begin. If you are experienced with installations, you may want to go directly to the hardware installation section.. For your information, we have provided background information on CD-ROMs and CD-ROM drives. Also include
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MagicSpin Installation Guide Technical background CD-ROM Technology CD-ROM stands for Compact Disc Read Only Memory. A compact disc format used to hold text, graphics and hi-fi stereo sound. It's like an audio CD, but uses a different track format for data. The audio CD player cannot play CD-ROMs, but CD-ROM players usually play audio CDs and have output jacks for a headphone or amplified speakers. CD-ROMs hold 650MB of data, which is equivalent to about 250,000 pages of text or 2
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CDs are fairly hardy but are far from indestructible. They are reasonably solid but overly flexing them can make them unreadable. They are not too sensitive to heat but will warp if left to bake in direct sunlight on a hot summer's day. CD media should always be cared for properly. The use of caddies or jewel cases will protect them; in general, the less handling, the better. Reading a CD-ROM Digital data is carved into the CD-ROM as pits (low spots) and lands (high spots). As the laser
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MagicSpin Installation Guide Enhanced IDE Interface Enhanced IDE, also called EIDE, is the term that Western Digital uses to describe its advanced drives that incorporate the performance improvements defined in ATA-2, along with several other refined protocols. EIDE has become a widely accepted term in the industry. The Enhanced IDE interface adds several important speed improvements as well as ATAPI support required to use your CD-ROM drive. Below is a list of the important improvemen
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CD-ROM Hardware Installation Prepare Your Computer for Installation Step 1. Before working on your computer, make sure the power to the computer and any related equipment is turned off. Step 2. While the cables are still attached to your computer, you may want to label them so you are sure to reconnect them properly when the installation process is complete. Step 3. Disconnect all cables and connectors from the back of your computer. Some cables may be attached to their connectors
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MagicSpin Installation Guide Figure 2: Back panel of the CD-ROM drive Connecting to a Primary IDE Controller There should be at least one IDE controller (or card) on the PC motherboard. This IDE controller nd support two devices, one for the hard disk (Master), and the other for the 2 hard disk or a CD- ROM drive. The hard disk should be connected to this primary IDE (Master mode) controller as the PC needs to use the hard disk to boot up the system. Thus, the CD-ROM drive can be
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Mounting Your CD-ROM Drive 1 Locate an available drive bay. Locate an empty drive bay within your computer. It may be necessary to remove a square iron plate. Please refer to your computer’s User’s Guide for assistance. 2 Slide the MagicSpin CD-ROM drive into the empty bay. Attach the MagicSpin CD-ROM with the four included screws. Use a Phillips head screwdriver to secure both sides of the CD-ROM. Make sure that you tighten the screws fully. Figure 4: Insert CD-ROM into 5
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MagicSpin Installation Guide 4 Connect the IDE interface cable. Connect the 40 pin IDE cable into the MagicSpin CD-ROM drive’s IDE connector located on the back of the CD-ROM drive (Figure 5). Figure 6: IDE connection Make sure to align the red-lined edge of cable with Pin-1 of the IDE connector. Connect the other end into either your motherboard IDE controller, or your IDE controller card plugged into your motherboard (Figure 6). Figure 7: Connection to Motherboard
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7 Reconnect all power cords to the computer. CD-ROM Software Installation Windows 98/95 Installation There is no need to install any CD-ROM device driver under Windows 98/95. After completing the hardware installation section of this manual, please follow the steps below: 1 Turn on your PC and start-up Windows 98/95. Windows 98/95 will automatically detect the new CD-ROM drive and load the appropriate drivers for your CD-ROM. If you CD-ROM is not automatically detected, please
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MagicSpin Installation Guide 4 Click ADD and select IDE CD-ROM and click install Windows NT 4.0 Installation 1 Power on your PC. 2 Start the Windows NT 3 Once in the desktop, click on the Start button > Settings > Control Panel > Devices 4 Select "ATAPI" from the list and click on the "Startup" button 5 When you get the startup screen, check "Boot" then click The "OK" button 6 Close the Devices screen and click on the Start button > Shut Down and restart the computer
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Note: DOS installation requires MSCDEX be present on your system. MSCDEX is included with DOS versions 6.0 and above. If you do not have MSCDEX, contact your computer reseller for assistance. MSCDEX.EXE MSCDEX.EXE is Microsoft’s CD Extension and is used to interface your PC to the CD-ROM drive. For the CD-ROM drive, MSCDEX.EXE version 2.21 or above is required. During installation, a line is added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT that loads the MSCDEX.EXE driver. The entry in your AUTOEXEC
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MagicSpin Installation Guide CD Audio If you have connected the CD audio cable to your soundcard, you will need to configure Windows to be able to play CD Audio. If you are running Windows 3.x, you will need to add the “MCI CD-AUDIO” driver. When this driver is loaded, the Media player program will then be able to play CD audio. Installation of the Multimedia program “CD Player” may be required for Windows 98/95. To install the CD player under Windows 98/95 Open your Control panel, an
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Using the CD-ROM Drive Front Panel Controls Figure 9: Front panel Controls Headphone Jack: The user can use a stereo headphone jack to get sound output from the earphone jack. Volume Control: The user can adjust the Volume knob to change the Earphone Jack audio output volume. Busy Indicator: The Busy Indicator will be lit while the CD-ROM disc is being accessing. CD Tray: The user can open or close the CD Tray by pressing the Open/Close button. Emergency Eject Hole (so
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MagicSpin Installation Guide Troubleshooting CD-ROM Troubleshooting The PC cannot detect the CD-ROM drive after installation. (Windows 98/95) If you are connecting the CD-ROM drive to the motherboard, read this: Make sure that there are no conflicts, both Primary and Secondary IDE controllers are present and without yellow exclamations on them. To check the status of your IDE controllers, click on the Start button > Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manager (under the Hard
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will be displayed and the NOIDE registry entry will be re-created. Windows will use the MS-DOS compatibility mode file system the next time you start the computer. If the CD-ROM drive is connected to a sound card or controller card, read this: Make sure the sound card or controller card are install properly, working properly and compatible with with Windows 98/95. The CD-ROM Drive cannot play music CDs (CD-DA) in Windows. The audio from a CD is transmitted from the CD-ROM to the so
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MagicSpin Installation Guide Appendix A: CD-ROM General Specifications Disc Disc Format: ISO9660 Data Discs CD-ROM (Mode 1 & Mode 2), CD-R and CD-RW media, Mixed Mode (Audio Combined CD-ROM Discs), CD-ROM/XA (Mode 2 form 1 & form 2), CD- I/FMV, Video CD, CD-DA, Photo-CD (Single & Disc Diameter: multisession), Karaoke CD, CD-extra. 8cm and 12cm Interface: ATAPI / IDE Audio Specifications Signal to Noise Ratio: 65 dB typical Headphone Level: >0.6 Vrms at 1 Khz, 32 ohm load
