Addonics IDE DigiDrive Installation
(Model: AEIDEDMD4)
Thank you for purchasing the Addonics IDE DigiDrive. This drive is designed for installing into any PC or Equipment with a standard
3.5’ drive bay and IDE interfaces. The drive works like a floppy device and requires No special driver. Once connected, it can be use
in computer running DOS and all Windows OS.
Hardware Installation
1. Power off the computer
2. Handle the device on the side and avoid touching the circuit board. Slide the IDE DigiDrive into one of the 3.5” drive bay of the
computer and secure the device to the drive bay with mounting screws.
3. Refer to figure 1; connect the IDE cable and the power cable to the IDE DigiDrive, making sure that the cable is plug into the
correct direction (pin 1 should go to pin 1 and so on).
4. Jumper JP1 setting 3,4-master (factory default), 1,2-Slave, and 5,6-cable select.
5. Power on the computer (for DOS machine, make sure there is a Flash media inside one of the slots), the LED light on top left hand
corner of the IDE DigiDrive should lit up. When the operating system is fully loaded, a drive icon labeled as Removable Disk will
appear in the My Computer folder.
Mounting
hole
Power
connector
Master or
slave jumper
LED
IDE
connector
Figure 1
IDE DigiDrive Utility Software
To install this software, load the CD into your computer and run the Setup program from the CD.
Note: The IDE Digidrive can operate without the utility software. The software fixes a bug in win2000 and adds A few user friendly
features:
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Report the proper media capacity under win2000 when switching media (a software bug on win2000 OS)
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Alert users when more than one media is inserted into the drive.
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Icon to show the type of media being detected.
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Format utility to ensure the correct format of different types of media.
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Bootable from CF, SD and MMC-to use this feature, the media must be boot enabled via the IDE Digidrive format utility and the
system BIOS need to be set to boot from the IDE Digidrive.
