USER MANUAL MEDIA LAN Disk ME747AK-SI FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS 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, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to 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 Distance 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. 2 TRADEMARKS MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/me/XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer *All of the third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners. 3 CONTENTS 1. Before You Get Started................................................................................................................... 9 1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 9 1.2 Safety Instruction ............................................................................................................... 9 1.3 Take a look to the ME747AK-SI ..................................................................................... 10 2. Easy Installation Guide ................................................................................................................. 12 2.1 What is in the Package ..................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Specifications..................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 Supported Hard Disk Formats ........................................................................................ 13 2.4 Minimum System Requirements ..................................................................................... 13 2.5 Supported Media Playback Formats............................................................................... 14 2.6 Start To Assemble ............................................................................................................. 15 3. Using Media LAN Disk ................................................................................................................. 16 4 3.1 As a USB2.0 Storage Disk ................................................................................................ 16 3.2 Use USB Mode .................................................................................................................. 16 3.2.1 Windows Vista 64Windows Vista X86Windows 2000Windows XP and Windows ME ...................................................................................................... 16 3.2.2 Windows 98SE ..................................................................................................... 16 3.3 Formatting Media Lan Disk in FAT32 file system of fully capacity ............................. 20 3.4 OTB software program installation ­ One Touch Backup Function ............................ 21 3.5 As a Media Player machine.............................................................................................. 23 3.5.1 Firmware Upgrade procedures of Media LAN ................................................. 24 3.5.2 TV Lock Function ............................................................................................... 25 3.6 As a Network Storage Disk ............................................................................................... 25 3.7 Switching between Media File Playback Mode and Network Storage Mode ............... 27 4. Remote Control Introduce............................................................................................................ 27 5 5. Starting Quick Media Play ........................................................................................................... 30 5.1 PHOTO PLAY MODE ..................................................................................................... 31 5.2 MUSIC PLAY MODE ...................................................................................................... 39 5.3 VIDEO PLAY MODE ...................................................................................................... 42 5.4 FILE LIBRARY................................................................................................................ 44 5.5 OTHER SETUP ................................................................................................................ 46 6. Use Network Mode in Windows System ...................................................................................... 48 6.1 Install application tool of Network mode ­MiniSAN Management.............................. 48 6.2 Mound your Media LAN Disk in Network mode ........................................................... 49 6.2.1 Discover miniSAN Disks in local network. ........................................................ 52 6.2.2 Mount a miniSAN Device Disk using the miniSAN Application Tool ............. 52 6.2.3 Display miniSAN Disk used capacity status. ..................................................... 58 6.2.4 miniSAN disk connection Status Modes ............................................................ 59 6 6.2.5 Disk Description information. ............................................................................ 61 6.2.6 Simple disk volume information ........................................................................ 62 6.2.7 Reload Disk function ........................................................................................... 63 6.2.8 Unmount miniSAN Disk ..................................................................................... 63 6.3 miniSAN Target Disk Administration functions ............................................................ 64 6.3.1 Disk information page ......................................................................................... 64 6.3.2 Disk Access Key Lock page ................................................................................ 66 6.3.3 Disk transmission traffic Bandwidth checking ................................................. 69 6.3.4 Advanced function for target disk ...................................................................... 71 6.4 miniSAN Disk Tool Option functions.............................................................................. 79 6.4.1 General function description .............................................................................. 79 6.4.2 Network function description ............................................................................. 82 6.4.3 GUI function description .................................................................................... 83 7 6.5 Uninstall miniSAN Driver ................................................................................................ 84 6.6 miniSAN Disk Tool About function. ................................................................................ 84 6.7 miniSAN Disk Manager Application Notes on Windows OS. ....................................... 86 7. FAQ ................................................................................................................................................ 91 8 1. Before You Get Started 1.1 Introduction Media Lan Disk (ME747AK-SI) is a multiple-functions productUSB2.0 PNP storage device & 10/100 network storage device & MP4 player. With user friendly configuration setting (No any TCP/IP)enjoy MoviesPhotos and Musicone touch backup fast copy functions and supports both IDE & SATA HDD at the same time. LAN Share disk is a best home network backup & entertainment center for your need. 1.2 Safety Instruction 1. Always unplug the power cord before inserting Hard Drive. 2. Using a power supply with a different voltage rating will damage and make void of this product warranty. 3. Keep this equipment away from humidity or any type of moisture. 4. Do not drop or shack the device. 5. Do not press or put any weight on the device. 6. Do not clean the device with alcohol, thinner or benzene. 9 1.3 Take a look to the ME747AK-SI 10 11 2. Easy Installation Guide 2.1 What is in the Package Media Bank x 1 Power Adapter x 1Power Adapter Cable x 1 Audio cable x 1Video cable x 1 USB cable x 1Ethernet Cable x 1 Remote control User Manual x 1Software Install CD x 1 2.2 Specifications ApplicationAny 3.5 inch hard disk (IDE interface) Output PortComposite videoNTSC/PALS-videoNTSC/PALStereo Audio jack 12 2.3 Supported Hard Disk Formats USB EnclosureFAT32NTFS Media File Playback ModeOnly FAT32 LanShare ModeFAT32NTFS 2.4 Minimum System Requirements USB Mode Windows® 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Server 200332bit / Vista X86 / Vista 64 bit 233 MHz Pentium® II or higher 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) USB 1.1 Port (USB 2.0 recommended) CD-ROM drive for installation Mac OSMac OS 9 or above 13 Networt storage mode Mode Windows® Win2000, Win Server 2000, WinXP, WinXP 64, Win Server 2003, Win Vista, Win Vista64 233 MHz Pentium® II or higher 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) USB 1.1 Port (USB 2.0 recommended) CD-ROM drive for installation 100Base-T full duplex switch 2.5 Supported Media Playback Formats VideoMPEG1VCDSVCDDAT MPEG2AVIVOBMPEG4AVIDivXXviD Subtitleasspsbsmissasrtsub-txt MusicMP3 PhotoJPEG 14 2.6 Start To Assemble Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4 15 3. Using Media LAN Disk 3.1 As a USB2.0 Storage Disk 1. Connect the power cable then power on it( push the power button 2~4 second). 2. Connect the USB cable in your computer. 3. When your hard disk is detected by your computer, LED1 is bright 3.2 Use USB Mode 3.2.1 Windows Vista 64Windows Vista X86Windows 2000Windows XP and Windows ME 1. Connect the LAN Share and your computer with USB Cable. 2. Connect the power cable then power on it. 3.2.2 Windows 98SE Install USB Win98 Driver 1. Find OP-9210 Win98 Driver in the install CD and execute OP9210_Disk_Remove. 2. InstallShield Wizard will appear, click Next. 16 3. Choose I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next. 4. Click Finish to complete driver installation. 5. Connect the LAN Share and your computer with USB Cable. 6. Connect the power cable then power on it. 7. System will install the USB driver automatically. Safely Remove Disk 1. Find USB icon in the system tray. 2. Right click icon and choose Safely Remove Hardware. 3. Click Stop. 17 4. Choose USB Mass Storage Device then click OK. 18 5. Click OK to complete safely remove hardware. Remove Win98 USB Driver 1. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel then execute Add/Remove Programs. 2. Choose OP-9210 USB 98 Driver and click Add/Remove...to remove it. 19 3.3 Formatting Media Lan Disk in FAT32 file system of fully capacity 1. Right click My Computer and select Manage. 2. Computer Management window will appear. Click Disk Management under Storage. Computer Management window will list all the disks in the computer. 3. Right click on partition disk and click New Partition. 4. New Partition Wizard will appear, click Next. 5. Select Primary partition or Extended partition which you want, click Next. 6. Enter the capacity that you want to partition, click Next. Note 1. Through the Disk Management tool providing by Windows systems, the maximum formattable capacity of FAT32 is 32GB. 2. Customer who desires to have a FAT32 partition more than 32GB can be satisfied by implementing our "Format Transfer Tool". Please refer to the manual of our "Format 20 Transfer Tool" for more comprehensive information about format issue. 7. Select Assign the following drive letter, click Next. 8. Select Format this partition with the following settings and choose the File system which you want. You can enter the Volume label what you want. Choose Perform a quick format, click Next. 9. Click Next. 10. You can see a new partition in the Disk Management. 11. The new disk will appear in your computer. 3.4 OTB software program installation ­ One Touch Backup Function 1. Please find the OTB Tool in the CD. 2. Install OTB. 3. After installing, please refer to user guide from One Touch Backup in the start menu. 21 Notes If you plug the ME747AK-SI into computer with USB, media file playback and network will not work. 22 3.5 As a Media Player machine 1. Please connect the Audio and Video cables between Media Bank and TV as shown as below figure. 2. Please plug in the power adaptor and power on your TV. 3. Please change your TV mode to AV mode. 4. Push the POWER button 2~4 second. 5. Now, you can enjoy it. 23 Notes If your image and subtitle are separated, please put them in the same folder, then copy to your ME-747AK ; and remember, the file name of the image and subtitle must be same. 3.5.1 Firmware Upgrade procedures of Media LAN 1. Please copy the new firmware file that you want to update from CD to your first partition of the hard disk. Please confirm the first partition is FAT32 2. Please connect the Video and power cable, and power on the Media Bank. 3. Enter the TV mode, and move your cursor on the new firmware " Bank30.rom". 4. Push the "OK" key to enable the upgrade procedure. AttentionDo not turn off the power when firmware upgrade procedures are under processing. It will cause upgrade procedures failed and Media Bank damage on the situation. 5. When the upgrade screen is gone, it means firmware upgrade has already finished. 24 3.5.2 TV Lock Function 1. This function will only lock the second partition if there are several partitions in your hard disk. You cannot enter the partition unless input correct password. 2. The screen will display a keyboard when you want to enter locked partition, Please input the default password (the default password is 0000when you first time use this function. 3. Please use the updownleftright and play key on the remote control to move or execute input function. 4. If you want to change the password, please choose the change key in the keyboard. Input the old password and then input the new password, then press OK. Now the new password is that you want 3.6 As a Network Storage Disk 1. Connect the included Ethernet cable from the Ethernet port on LAN Share to a switch (100 Base-T). 2. Make sure the power connector is firmly attached to the LAN Share and connect the power adapter to a power source. 25 26 3.7 Switching between Media File Playback Mode and Network Storage Mode Push the "Power" button on the media bank or the remote control, then the LED will lighted up between "MP4" and "NET HDD". When the "MP4" LED lighted on, Media File Playback mode is active. When the " NET HDD" LED lighted on, NDAS mode is active. 4. Remote Control Introduce Key OK UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT PHOTO MUSIC VIDEO FILE MAIN MENU SETUP Function Description Takes you to play or execute the current selection. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. PHOTO Mode. MUSIC Mode. VIDEO Mode. FILE Mode. Go to the main menu. Setup and customize the settings of Media Bank. 27 INFO REV PAUSE FWD LASTPAGE PLAY NEXTPAGE PREVIEW STOP NEXT VOL+ VOL MUTE AUDIO REPEAT SLIDESHOW ROTATE ZOOM TRANSITION TV/VGA 28 See the information of the file. Previous section in Music or Video. Interrupts file playback. Next section in Music or Video. Jump to last page. Continue play back. Jump to next page. Previous file. Terminate the selected mode. Next file. Increase the volume. Decrease the volume. Turn off the sound. Choose the sound channel. Repeat setup when photomusic and video are playing. Playback music under slideshow with photo. Rotate the photo. Zoom out the photo. Allows you to choose the sound mode. Change display between VGA and TV PLAY/OK UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT MAIN MENU POWER Takes you to play or execute the current selection. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. Takes you to the main menu. Power switch 29 5. Starting Quick Media Play To start Quick Media Play, do the followings 1. Press 'Setup' button to enter the SETUP MENU-MAIN PAGE. 2. Choose 'Preferences' and check 'TV TYPE' is 'MULTI SYSTEM' or not 3. After setup, choose 'Exit Setup' return to main menu. Notes 1. Default setup of TV type is MULTI SYSTEM. 2. MULTI SYSTEM includes NTSC type and PAL type. 3. NTSCTaiwan, US, Japan...etc 4. PALMainland China / European countries 30 5.1 PHOTO PLAY MODE You can press arrow key to select 'PHOTO' mode in MAIN MENU or press 'PHOTO' on the remote control, or you can press 'FILE' to enter ' File Library' to search the file you want to play. 31 FULL SIZE DISPLAY You can press ' OK' button on the remote control to show the Full-size picture. The screen will be shown as right. ZOOM IN DISPLAY You can press 'Zoom' button on the remote control to zoom in the picture and press 'Zoom' button again to disable. You can press arrow keys to move picture. The screen will be shown as below. Zoom Off Zoom In × 2 Zoom In × 3 32 ROTATE SIDPLAY You can press 'ROTATE' button on the remote control to rotate the picture in clockwise direction. SLIDE SHOW SETUP Press 'Setup' button to enter the SETUP MENU-MAIN PAGE and select SLIDESHOW SETUP to select your play mode. MANUALYou must press '' or ''button to change your picture. 33 AUTOPictures will change automatically. 34 FOLDER REPEAT This item can setup folder repeat in slideshow. Press '' or ''button on the remote control to select your play mode. ONAll photo files display automatically. OFFSingle photo file display automatically. INTERVAL TIME This item can setup interval time between every picture Press '' or '' button on the remote control to select slideshow interval time 35 TRANSITION This item can setup transition between every picture, there are fourteen items let you to choose. FULL SCREENChange picture with full screen. TOP->BOTTOMChange picture from top to bottom. BOTTOM->TOPChange picture from bottom to top. T/B->CENTERChange picture from top and bottom to center. CENTER->T/BChange picture from center to top and bottom. 36 BLIND:T->BChange picture from top to bottom like blind. LEFT->RIGHTChange picture from left to right. RIGHT->LEFTChange picture from right to left. L/R->CENTERChange picture from left and right to center. CENTER->L/RChange picture from center to left and right. IMPLODEChange picture from around to center. BLIND:L->RChange picture from left to right like blind. CROSS FADEChange picture cross fade. RANDOMChange picture in random mode. 37 AUTO START This item allows you to play your video files without going to MAIN MENU Press '' or '' button on the remote control to select your play mode. ONVideo file will play automatically when you power on Media Bank. OFFYou must play video file manually. 38 5.2 MUSIC PLAY MODE MUSIC mode allows you to view your MP3 files. You can press arrow key to select 'MUSIC' mode in MAIN MENU or press 'MUSIC' on the remote control, or you can press 'FILE' to enter ' File Library' to search the file you want to play. 39 PLAYBACK Press '' or ''button on the remote control to select the file you want to play. You can press 'EQ' button on the remote control to change the EQ mode.ClassicJazzRockPoPBallad Dance 40 REPEAT PLAY Press 'Setup' button to enter the SETUP MENU-MAIN PAGE and select MUSIC SETUP to select your play mode. You can press '' or ''button on the remote control to select your play mode ONEThe same song will play repeatedly. OFF Music will stop to play when songs played once from first to last. ALLAll songs will repeatedly play continued. 41 5.3 VIDEO PLAY MODE VIDEO mode allows you to view your video files. You can press arrow key to select 'VIDEO' mode in MAIN MENU or press 'VIDEO' on the remote control, or you can press 'FILE' into' File Library' to search the file you want to play. 42 Pause or start/resume playback, press the button 'PAUSE' on your remote control. Stop playback, press the button 'STOP' on your remote control. To move to previous video file, press the button 'PREVIOUS' or 'REV' on your remote control. To move to next video file, press the button 'NEXT' or 'FWD' on your remote control. 43 5.4 FILE LIBRARY File library allows you to view all your media files and browse your play list. Use the arrow keys on your remote control to quick search the file you want to play. Press 'OK' button on your remote control to play the file 44 DELETERENAMENEW FOLDERCANCEL Press ' INFO' button on the remote control in the file library, you can deleterename the file and folder, you also can create a new folder. DELETEDelete file. RENAMECreate new file name of file. NEW FOLDERCreate a new folder. CANCELCancel the function that you want to do 45 5.5 OTHER SETUP You can execute the setup of OSD LANGOSD MESSAGE and SETUP VALUES in PREFERENCES PAGE. OSD LANGChoose the language that you want to use. PREVIEWPreview window on/off. OSD MESSAGETurn on or turn off OSD MESSAGE. NotesIf you turn on this item, you can see the icon at your TV upper left corner when you execute REV or FWD function. SETUP VALUESSetup VALUES in default mode. NotesIf you execute this item, all setup values will return to default values. 46 47 6. Use Network Mode in Windows System 6.1 Install application tool of Network mode ­MiniSAN Management 1. Find miniSAN Install driver in the driver CD, double click 48 2. Install Shield Wizard will appear. Click the Next button to continue to next step. 3. Accept License Agreement and the click Next to continue installation. 4. Click the Install button to install drivers. 5. Click Continue Anyway to continue installation. 6. Click the Finish button to complete. 7. Click on the Yes button to restart your computer now, or No to restart later.Propose reboot 6.2 Mound your Media LAN Disk in Network mode When software installation is completed, you will find a miniSAN Disk Administrator Tool icon the system tray. on 49 miniSAN Netdisk tool 50