Panasonic P2 Installation Manual

Install Manual/Manuel d’installation

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Contents

Operating Precautions
When Using Windows

1. Before Installing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2. Precautions in Handling the P2 Card in the Personal Computer . . . . . . . 3

3. Software to be Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

4. Installation of the P2 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5. Adding a New P2 Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

6. Uninstallation of the P2 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

7. Checking the Installed Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8. Setting the internal P2 drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

9. Checking the Installation Status of the P2 Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

10. Checking the Version of the P2 Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

11. P2 Card Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

12. Software for each P2 device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

When Using Macintosh

PC card slot driver for Macintosh PowerBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

P2 card formatter for the Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Operating Precautions

It is prohibited to redistribute the software included with this supplied CD-ROM, regardless
of whether or not compensation is received. Use of the software stored on the supplied
CD-ROM without permission for the purposes of manufacturing and/or selling any kinds of
software and hardware shall be also prohibited. Furthermore, we will not be responsible
for any losses and/or damage that may arise from using or not being able to use this
system. This shall apply even if we have already been notified of the possibility of such
damage.

Windows, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista are trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation of the United States.
Macnintosh and Mac OS X are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. of the United States.
Other names of companies and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of the
respective companies.

zIn these instructions, Microsoft

Professional and Windows
“Windows XP Professional,” and “Windows Vista Business,” respectively.

zSimilarly, in these instructions, Macintosh

as “Macintosh,” “Mac OS X” and “PowerBook,” respectively.

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Windows®, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP

Vista Business are given as “Windows,” “Windows 2000,”

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, Mac OS® X and PowerBook® are given

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When Using Windows

1. Before Installing

This supplied CD-ROM installs the software
for P2, used to reference on a personal
computer the content of Panasonic P2
cards.
A personal computer on which this software
will be installed needs to meet the following
conditions:

z OS Windows 2000 SP4 or later

Windows XP Professional
SP2 or later
Windows Vista Business or
higher

z RAM 512MB or greater recommended

1GB or greater recommended
for Windows Vista Business

z CPU Pentium

recommended

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4 1.5GHz or greater

z The personal computer is equipped with

a drive in which CD-ROM can be read.

z If the OS is Windows 2000 SP4, SP4

patches must be installed.
SP4 patches are included on the supplied
CD-ROM, in a folder named

\Win2000SP4Patch.

The personal computer further needs to
meet the following conditions when actually
using the software or when connecting the
personal computer to the P2 card or P2
devices (P2 drive, P2 deck etc.).

When connecting the P2 devices to the
personal computer via USB2.0:

z A USB2.0 port is provided, and the

USB2.0 driver used is that supplied by
Microsoft.
If said OS is preinstalled in the personal
computer, the driver is already present in
the computer, so you do not need to
check it.

When using the software with the P2
card directly inserted into the card bus
of the personal computer:

z A Type 2 card bus slot is installed.

<Notes>

z Depending on the condition of the

personal computer, phenomena such as
dropping image frames and
disconnecting sound may occur when
playing back material.

z When connecting the P2 devices, be sure

to reserve more free drives than the
number of drives necessary for each P2
device which can be used by the
personal computer. (The number of
drives necessary for a P2 device should
include those necessary for the P2 card
slots and hard disks built into P2 device.)

z The following 3 types of cards only can

be used with the cardbus driver for
Windows 2000. Other types of cards
cannot be used.

AJ-P2C002SG
AJ-P2C004HG
AJ-P2C008HG

z If the OS is Windows Vista Business, the

“User Account Control” dialogue box may
appear when installing, formatting etc. In
this case, click “Continue” and continue
the operation.

z For versions of 64-bit Windows later than

64-bit Windows Vista, the installer is
stored in the folder \Win64 on the CD­ROM.

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2. Precautions in Handling the P2 Card in the
Personal Computer

When using the software with the P2 card or P2 devices connected to the
personal computer, be sure to install the P2 driver on the personal
computer from the supplied CD-ROM.

If these devices are connected to a personal computer on which the P2 driver is not
installed, these devices may not operate properly.

Do not remove the P2 card from the slot during reading from or writing to
the P2 card. Also, do not insert or remove the USB cable or change the
setting of USB connector.

Otherwise, abnormal operation of the personal computer may result.
Also, perform the following operation before removing the P2 card from the card slot:

z If the P2 card is inserted directly into the card bus in the personal computer, execute

“Safely Remove Hardware” from the system tray on the Windows taskbar.

z If the P2 devices are connected to the personal computer via USB2.0, open My

Computer, then right-click on the particular hardware item into which the P2 card is
inserted, and select “Take Out”.

z Ensure that the personal computer system is set up in such a way that it will not go

into standby mode or hibernation mode during use of the P2 card. If the system is set
up to go into standby mode or hibernation mode while a P2 card is being accessed,
destruction of the files and/or data being executed may result.

3. Software to be Installed

The supplied CD-ROM installs the following
programs:

z P2 driver
z P2 card manager
z Software for each P2 device

When the programs are installed using the
supplied CD-ROM, you are able to format
the P2 card. The P2 card can be formatted
in either of two ways:

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z In Windows Explorer, right-click on the P2

card drive. Select “Format” from the
displayed menu.

z In Windows Explorer, select the P2 card

drive.
From the displayed menu, select “File”,
“Removable Disk” and “Format” in that

order.
The supplied CD-ROM also contains a set
of instruction manuals. Refer to the folder
named \Manuals.
To browse instruction manuals, you need
Adobe
currently installed in the personal computer,
you will need to download this program
from the Adobe Web site.

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Reader. If Adobe Reader is not

4. Installation of the P2 Software

<Notes>

z Install the P2 software after logging into

the personal computer under a user
name that has administrator status.

z We recommend that installation of the

software be started with the P2 devices
to be used, connected to the personal
computer.
When the P2 devices are connected to
the personal computer, Windows
Explorer will additionally display the same
number of drives as device card slots for
these devices.
When no drive is displayed in Windows
Explorer, check that the USB2.0 driver
provided by Microsoft is installed in the
personal computer.

z The P2 card driver needs to be installed

for each card bus slots. If you are using a
personal computer that has two or more
card bus slots, insert the P2 card into
every slot.
The driver may not be installed for any
slot into which the P2 card is not inserted,
causing the P2 card to operate
improperly. If the PC does not recognize
the inserted P2 card, then try re-inserting
it.

z If the OS is Windows 2000/Windows XP

Professional, installation of the software
may fail when the driver signature option
in Windows is set to “Block”.
If the installation fails, select the
Hardware tab in the “System Properties”
window in Control Panel and check that
the driver signature option for the driver is
not set to “Block”.

z If a dialogue box not described in this

manual appears during installation of
the software, click “Cancel” to close
the box.

z When a device such as the P2 card is

connected to the personal computer

before the driver is installed, the

following dialogue box appears. Be

sure to click “Cancel” to close the box.

( Fo r Wi n d ow s 20 0 0/

Windows XP Professional)

(For Windows Vista Business)

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Figure 1

Figure 2

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Users with a P2 driver version prior to

1.07.0048 already installed in Windows
2000/Windows XP Professional

Refer to “10. Checking the Version of the
P2 Driver” for the procedure to check the
version.
To install the new driver, you need to
uninstall the currently installed driver. If
you uninstall this driver, all the
information installed until now will be
deleted. Refer to “6. Uninstallation of the
P2 Software” for the uninstallation
procedure and notes.
Also, you can uninstall the old version of
the P2 driver during the procedure to
upgrade the P2 driver. For both
procedures, you may need to restart
Windows.

z If the OS of the personal computer is

Windows Vista Business, the dialogue
box shown in Figure 3 may appear when
you upgrade the P2 driver. In this case,
click the “OK” button.

After checking each item in “1. Before
Installing”, use the following procedure to
install the P2 software in the personal
computer:

1 Close all applications, then connect

the P2 card or P2 devices to be used
to the personal computer.

When the devices are connected to
the personal computer, the Found
New Hardware Wizard box will
appear automatically, but click
“Cancel” to close the box.

2 Insert the supplied CD-ROM.
3 From “MY COMPUTER”, access the

drive containing the supplied CD-ROM
and execute setup.exe.
The window shown in Figure 4
appears, starting the setup process.
Click “Next”.

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Figure 4

Figure 3