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I/O Magic MagicSpin User Manual

Manual is about: Internal ATAPI / Enhanced IDE CD-ROM

Summary of MagicSpin

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    M agic s pin internal atapi / enhanced ide cd-rom user’s guide.

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    Dear i/om agic 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 th...

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    Notice: i/om agic 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/om agic corporation shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental consequent...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 5 system requirements .........................................................................................................

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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 ...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 6 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-...

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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 caddie...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 8 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 accept...

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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 reconn...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 10 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 support two devices, one for the hard disk (master), and the other for the 2 nd hard d...

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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-r...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 12 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). Make sure to align the red-lined edge of cable with pin-1 of the ide connector. Connect the other e...

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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...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 14 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 "start...

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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 ...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 16 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 progr...

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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 bus...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 18 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 controller...

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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 ...

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    Magicspin installation guide page 20 appendix a: cd-rom general specifications disc disc format: disc diameter: 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 (singl...

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    Contacting i/omagic if you experience problems with this i/omagic product and you cannot find an answer in the previous trouble shooting sections, you can contact i/omagic’s technical support staff. Please have the following information ready when you call: • the product you are having problems with...

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    Dt-cd32a-001-981101 ver 1.02.