ADI USB Drive Users Manual

User Manual of ADI USB Drive

ver. 1.01

Applied Digital Information Co.

FCC Compliance

THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS: (1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRED OPERATION

THE MANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RADIO OR TV INTERFERENCE CAUSED UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATIONS TO THIS EQUIPMENT. SUCH MODIFICATIONS COULD VOID THE USER'S AUTHORITY TO OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT.

USER INFORMATION

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Contents

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 3

1.1 What is ADI USB Drive..................................................................................3

1.2 Function features .............................................................................................4

1.3 Copyright......................................................................................................... 4

2. System requirement...................................................................................................5

3. How to install & uninstall..........................................................................................6

3.1 Hardware Installation ...................................................................................... 6

3.2 Driver Installation & un-installation on Windows 98 ..................................... 6

3.3 Installation & un-installation on Windows ME, 2000, XP..............................7

3.4 Installation & un-installation on Mac OS........................................................8

3.5 Installation & un-installation on Linux OS .....................................................8

3.6 Install & Uninstall software utility..................................................................9

4. Software utility user guide.......................................................................................10

4.1 Password Security..........................................................................................11

4.1.1 Login................................................................................................... 11

4.1.2 Security Logout ..................................................................................12

4.1.3 Change Password................................................................................12

4.1.4 Where am I?........................................................................................13

4.1.5 Disable password security.................................................................. 13

4.2 Format Disk...................................................................................................14

4.2.1 Quick format & complete format .......................................................15

4.2.2 Express & Dynamic partition security format....................................15

4.2.3 USB ZIP bootable...............................................................................15

4.3 Safety Eject....................................................................................................16

4.4 Configuration.................................................................................................18

4.4.1 Write Protection..................................................................................18

4.4.2 Short Cuts........................................................................................... 19

4.4.3 PC Lock..............................................................................................19

4.4.4 Personalize ADI USB Drive...............................................................20

5. Frequently Asked Question..................................................................................... 21

1. Introduction

Nowadays, USB is the most popular interface of PC, as you can see, peripherals like mouse, keyboard, web cam, scanner, digital camera…are all migrated to USB interface. Data storage is also an important application of PC, as the growing needs of mobile mass storage solution, a revolution product called “USB Disk” which combined USB interface with mass storage Flash ROM is introduced. It takes the advantage of the convenience of USB and large capacity of Flash ROM, and become very popular in less than 2 years. You can store you personal files on USB disk, plug on any computer with USB interface, than access you files just like access a mobile hard disk. Though USB disk has large capacity (above 32MB), it is much smaller on contrast to floppy disks and hard disks.

1.1 What is ADI USB Drive

ADI USB Drive is a USB disk product of Applied Digital Information Co. With powerful software functions, it is more convenience and secure than other USB disks. ADI USB Drive can support 8 Flash ROM simultaneously, that is, the largest capacity is 1GB. Since privacy and data security is very important for end user, ADI USB Drive equipped multiple well-designed and robust password protection functions. We also implemented serious compliant test in various operation systems, such as Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.x, Red Hat Linux 7.x, 8.x.etc. ADI USB Drive is driverless in Windows ME, 2000, XP, but Windows 98 system didn’t come with default USB drivers, you need to install a device driver (Detailed in Section 3.1). ADI USB Drive is also driverless in Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.x, Red Hat Linux 7.x, and 8.x. It supports hot plug & play in all OS, and needn’t external power supply. We are proud to say that; ADI USB Drive is a very stable and reliable mass storage solution among all USB disk products.

1.2 Function features

 USB version 1.1 compliant, supports version 2.0  Supports full-speed (12 Mbps)  USB bus-powered capability  Driver Support for Windows 98/98SE

 Driver-less to support

 Windows 2000, Windows ME, XP  Mac OS 8.6, 9.0, 9.0.4, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 10.2, 10.2.1

 Red-Hat Linux 7.x and 8.x  Support suspend mode and wake-up resume  One LED working Message  PC software functions

 Auto installed after clicking the included execution file  Dialog menus activated by the mouse right button  Normal and bootable disk formatting  USB ZIP bootable function  Quick and complete disk formatting  Security and non-security disk formatting  Password function to enable the security feature  Dynamic partition for security disk formatting  S/W write protect  Create the Shortcut functions  PC-lock function  Multiple language support for dialog menus  Personalized folder background

1.3 Copyright

2. System requirement

All ADI USB Drives’ performance very depends on the performance of the PC that the ADI USB Drive connected. The minimal system requirement recommended as follow:

1 PC system:

 CPU: Pentium III or above  RAM: 64MB or above  Hard Disk free space: 5MB or above  USB Host: USB 2.0, USB 1.1 or Add-on-card  Operation System:

 Windows: Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP or

later.

 Linux: Red Hat Linux 7.x, 8.x or compatible versions.

2 Mac System:

 Hardware: Power Mac, iMac, eMac, iBook and compatible hardware systems.  Operation System: Mac OS 8.6, 9.0, 9.0.4, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 10.2, 10.2.1  USB Host: USB 2.0, USB 1.1 or Add-on-card

3. How to install & uninstall

In this section, we will show you how to attach ADI USB Drive USB disk to PC, install & uninstall its software utility in your PC. Because USB disk is driverless in most OS except Windows 98, we will explain how to install driver in this OS. Software utility of ADI USB Drive is installed automatically, but when you don’t need this utility any more, you have to uninstall it manually by yourself. You can find out this uninstall program on the CD come with ADI USB Drive or download from vendor’s WEB site.

3.1 Hardware Installation

USB had became a standard equipment of PC for more than two years, if your PC is older than 2 years, you should call your PC vendor to make sure that there are USB hosts on your computer. ADI USB Drive is a device with “male” USB connector; you can find out “female” connectors at the back-end of your PC, some PCs place their USB connectors in the front-end of PCs, or both. All you have to do is simply plug your ADI USB Drive into PC’s USB connector; PC will detect ADI USB Drive automatically.

It’s a good idea to attach an extended USB connector cable to prevent attrition of host connectors on PC.

3.2 Driver Installation & un-installation on Windows 98

If your operation system is Windows 98, you will see a pop up “detected new device” wizard as soon as you plug ADI USB Drive into PC. The message tells you that PC had detected the ADI USB Drive but Windows doesn’t know what it is. Please follow install steps below:

1. Plug ADI USB Drive into PC, Windows will display Add new device wizard.

2. Click [Next] button.

3. Choose [search for new device driver] option than click [next] button.

4. Put the CD come with ADI USB Drive into CD-ROM drive.

5. Choose [search CD-ROM Disk] option than click [next] button.

6. Windows will find out and install ADI USB Drive automatically.

7. If installation succeed, click [Next] button than click [Finish] button, the installation is completed.

8. If error messages occur, click [cancel] many times to leave wizard. Maybe you put wrong CD in PC, eject CD-ROM and check it. Or repeat step 1 to 7 again.

9. If installation was successful, you may find “removable disk” icon on your “My Computer” folder.

+ 15 hidden pages

ADI USB Drive Users Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual