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User's Manual DTX-200 

 

 

E-mail : [email protected]  

 

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_______________PARC D'ACTIVITES DE VILLEJUST - 9, place Marcel Rebuffat - 91971 COURTABOEUF CEDEX / FRANCE____________ 

S.A.S. au capital de 160. 000 € - R.C. EVRY B 331 142 018 - SIRET 331 142 018 00026 - APE 725Z- Int. VAT n° FR 81 331 142 018 

 

Edition: May 2013 

 

 

 

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Floppy drive disk emulator

 

 

DTX-200 

 
 

 
 

USER'S MANUAL 

 

Summary of Contents for DTX-200

Page 1: ..._______PARC D ACTIVITES DE VILLEJUST 9 place Marcel Rebuffat 91971 COURTABOEUF CEDEX FRANCE____________ S A S au capital de 160 000 R C EVRY B 331 142 018 SIRET 331 142 018 00026 APE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 1 Floppy drive disk emulator DTX 200 USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...recover the reliability of their device With the floppy emulators you choose reliability efficiency and innovation to replace your old systems floppy disks drives Emulators are 100 compatible with older IT systems and can be replace plug to plug old generation drives The DTX 200 offers you economies of scale very low maintenance costs and consuming costs This sheet will give you the basic indicati...

Page 3: ...PE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 3 NOMENCLATURE 04 I TURNING THE DTX 200 ON 05 II USING THE DTX 200 07 Precautions Same controls Problems Using Button 08 Backup Switch position III TURNING THE DTX 200 OFF 10 IV UNPLUGGING THE DTX 200 11 USING DRIVE CHAINS 12 A single DTX Drive chains 13 Drives addresses Cross cables Patch cables 13 Change the DTX 200 address Terminator 14 Remov...

Page 4: ...t 91971 COURTABOEUF CEDEX FRANCE____________ S A S au capital de 160 000 R C EVRY B 331 142 018 SIRET 331 142 018 00026 APE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 4 Illustration 1 Emulator front view Illustration 2 Emulator side view NOMENCLATURE Power supply Cable Connector J1 Commands cable Pin 1 Led Protect Led seek Led select ...

Page 5: ...PE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 5 Plug in Connection After having plugged the power supply connect the straight 34 pin cable cables like shown below Illustration 3 Cables connections WARNING You must respect the connector s direction The red wire must be plugged in so as the red wire faces the power supply cable Use 5 Volts only with the emulator I TURNING THE DTX 200 ON Conne...

Page 6: ...the emulator Moreover the standard Compact FLASH is formatted 2HD PC or 2DD Rotation speed 300RPM 200ms Same controls Your system will perform exactly like before if not faster because of the Compact Flash fast data transferring capabilities You can send the same commands as you would have done with an old floppy drive The LED Select lights permanently on a selection chosen The LED turns on and of...

Page 7: ...How to use the multi diskettes option Depending on the emulator s model you can have from 0 4 to 0 99 volumes Press on BP1 to browse volumes from the first to the last one A slight pressure on it brings you back on the first volume A slight pressure on BP2 validate the selected volume and soon a decimal point will appear on the led display as shown in the figure below to indicate that the emulator...

Page 8: ...c back up make sure to press BP2 before switching it off Switch position WRITE PROTECT The switch write protect enables and disable write protection When the Led write protect turns on it mean that the write protect protection is activated and if the led write protect is turn off it means that write protection is disabled Red Write Protect Switch position 2HD 2DD The 2HD 2DD switch is used to swit...

Page 9: ...mply unplug the power supply from the DTX200 If the emulator does not work after having reset it a few times please contact us For some models of emulator backup are done automatically as you switch off the emulator hence preventing any data loss So you simply just have to turn off the power supply to turn off the emulator If your current emulator do not support automatic backup then make sure to ...

Page 10: ... 160 000 R C EVRY B 331 142 018 SIRET 331 142 018 00026 APE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 10 You can unplug the emulator once the power supply has been switched off To this end you just have to disconnect the power supply cable the commands cable and the data cable as shown below Illustration 7 Power supply cable unplugging Illustration 8 Connector unplugging IV UNPLUGGING THE ...

Page 11: ...tive cover found on the upper part the emulator Illustration 10 Drive select terminators ST25 DS2 DS1 ST17 ST15 Illustration 9 Jumper configurations WARNING Both disk change jumper cannot be set at the same time The emulator above is in the basic configuration when delivered by DATEX The drive select jumper is at address 1 It is equipped with terminators If your machine just uses one DTX this one ...

Page 12: ...ve chain you must pay attention to some parameters The drive addresses The drive called Master it is drive or emulator must be at the address 1 drive select 1 The addresses of the other drive shave to be configured There are some solutions to this end It depends on cables you use to link your disks Cross cables You do not have to modify the disks addresses if you use cross cables to link your disk...

Page 13: ... You have to modify the disks addresses if you use patch cables The disk Master must be at address 0 the next one at address 1 Change the DTX 200 address You just have to place the jumper on the address you want to change the DTX 200 address Please refer at the illustration 14 page 15 to know the available addresses EXAMPLE If you want the DTX 200 at address 0 you just have to put the jumper as sh...

Page 14: ...ators in a daisy chain You must remove it from the disks and leave it just on one disk Remove the terminators You just have to pull up the terminators to remove it from the card WARNING When you remove a component from the card you must take care to pull it straight up to avoid breaking pins When you remove terminators take care of their direction If you want to replace them on the card they will ...

Page 15: ...26 APE 725Z Int VAT n FR 81 331 142 018 Edition May 2013 15 The DTX 200 is in your old IT system configuration when delivered by DATEX The emulator simulates exactly the same number of heads and cylinders as your old floppy disk If you notice any problem on your DTX 200 working please contact us DATEX D S M Parc d activités de Villejust 9 Place Marcel REBUFFAT 91971 COURTABOEUF Cedex FRANCE 33 1 6...

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