PDI-00402-00, Rev. A02
AM-402
SCSI CD-Recorder
Installation Instructions
Страница 1: ...PDI 00402 00 Rev A02 AM 402 SCSI CD Recorder Installation Instructions ...
Страница 2: ...valent type recommended by the manufacturer Discard used batteries according to the manufacturer s instructions ATTENTION Il y a danger d explosion s il y a replacement incorrect de la batterie Remplacer uniquement avec une batterie du même type ou d un type recommandé par le constructeur Mettre au rébut les batteries usagées conformément aux instructions du fabricant For AM 6000 systems replace b...
Страница 3: ...ODUCT DESCRIPTION 1 TOOLS REQUIRED 1 PREPARING THE AM 402 FOR INSTALLATION 1 SCSI BUS TERMINATION 3 External SCSI Bus Termination 3 Internal SCSI Bus Termination 3 INSTALLING THE AM 402 CD RECORDER INTO THE SYSTEM 4 SOFTWARE INFORMATION FOR THE CD RECORDER 4 ...
Страница 4: ...ODUCT DESCRIPTION The AM 402 SCSI CD Recorder is a dual function unit that writes to recordable CD media and reads any compatible CD ROM The CD Recorder is a narrow SCSI device and occupies one 5 25 peripheral device bay in the system or subsystem Up to 600 megabytes of data can be stored on a single CD ROM The AM 402 SCSI CD Recorder requires the AlphaCD WRITER software package which includes a s...
Страница 5: ...on of the 50 pin SCSI drive connector and 4 pin power connector For the majority of installations the SCSI ID jumpers are the only jumpers you should need to change to suit your particular system configuration See Figure 1 for standard jumper settings Figure 1 AM 402 CD Recorder Rear View PIN 1 CONFIGURATION 50 PIN CONNECTOR DC POWER OUT AUDIO PIN 1 CONFIGURATION 50 PIN CONNECTOR DC POWER OUT AUDI...
Страница 6: ...correctly with a passive SCSI terminator However the Eagle 250 450 AM 6000 AM 7000 and Roadrunner 040 and 060 equipped computers require active termination as do certain other peripheral devices Generally if either the computer or any peripheral in it requires active termination be sure to use an active terminator and insure that no SCSI peripheral inside the computer is terminated Internal SCSI B...
Страница 7: ...mputer Owner s Manuals for these computer systems For installation in an external subsystem consult the instructions furnished with the subsystem The AM 402 should only be mounted horizontally never vertically Use these instructions to install your AM 402 CD Recorder and then use the instructions in the MAKACD command reference sheet attached to complete the software portion of the installation SO...
Страница 8: ...nused areas can be copied to the CD Rewritable CDs may be erased and reused When recording to a blank CD MAKACD will start recording at the beginning of the CD and use only as much space as required to hold the desired data The Table of Contents will normally be written and the CD can then be used with the ACD program When recording to a partially recorded CD MAKACD will start recording at the fir...
Страница 9: ... by overwriting all data areas of the last recorded session on the CD This command may be used more than once to successively erase multiple sessions from the CD Once a session is erased the previous session may become available ID n Uses the CD Recorder at SCSI ID n instead of scanning the SCSI bus to find a CD Recorder The ID can be from 0 to 15 NOEJECT The CD will not be ejected from the record...
Страница 10: ...stem be idle Other users or system activity could interfere with CD recording and cause the CD to be unusable Once recording has started the CD recorder must receive a constant stream of data until the entire recording is finished If the CD recorder runs out of data before recording is finished the program will abort with a fatal error Copying logical disks to the CD recorder that are being update...
Страница 11: ... Title Next MAKACD asks for the AMOS logical drives to copy to the CD as follows Enter the list of disk devices to transfer onto the CD Recordable disk Devices may be entered as a range ex dev0 20 for dev0 through dev20 or may be comma separated The list is terminated with a blank line Enter the logical drives to be copied and then just a return when all desired drives have been entered DSK0 DSK6 ...
Страница 12: ...displayed Transferring DSK0 in real mode Transferring DSK6 in real mode Waiting for CD recorder to finish writing Completed Also the following information is displayed on the status line 20 complete buffer 95 The percentage complete shows how much of the total amount of data has been written to the CD The buffer percentage shows how full the CD recorder s internal cache buffer is When all data has...
Страница 13: ...river as follows LOG DSK0 1 6 COPY CDR DVR CDRMMC DVR If desired you may load the device driver into system memory during system initialization by adding the following statement in you system initialization file SYSTEM DSK0 CDR DVR 1 6 This statement should be added in the same area of the initialization file that is currently loading other system device drivers The CDR DEV device information file...
Страница 14: ...uffer not initialized Error CD Recorder out of data during recording The computer was unable to supply data to the CD recorder fast enough to keep the recorder supplied with data The CD is incomplete and unusable If others were using the system during recording try again without the other users Otherwise try again using a slower maximum recording speed see the SPEED switch Error Disk in CD Recorde...
Страница 15: ... CD track The CD may or may not be usable Warning Unable to read existing track numbers Starting with track 0 Errors concerning the AMOS CD data structure Calculated and true starting points are different Recording will start at sector nnnnnn with a filler of nnnnnn sectors This is only a warning indicating that recording will start at a different location on the CD than originally assumed The Alp...
Страница 16: ... starting AMOS sector is 251608 This shows information about where data will be recorded on the CD and how much space it consumes CD Recorder located at SCSI id n This shows the SCSI id of the CD Recorder being used Completely erase entire CD MAKACD will erase all data from the rewritable CD This writes to the entire CD and can take 30 minutes or longer DSK0 64660 blocks Transfer rate 1273K per se...
Страница 17: ... more than one session This operation may take over 30 minutes to complete This just warns that the erase operation requested will take a long time to complete Nothing will be shown on the terminal screen until the erase operation completes Transferring DSK0 in test mode Test mode does everything but turn on the recording laser Using Generic SCSI MMC CDR driver CDRMMC This message shows the CDR dr...
