Frequently Asked Questions

General FAQs

• Product Comparison Charts
• Computer lock up
• Booting from USB Port
• Installing Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP - from DOS using USB connection
• No Drive letter after installation of Addonics Pocket or Mobile storage device
• Trouble Shooting guide for Pocket Series under Windows NT
• USB device installation for Sun Solaris OS
• Interface connections under Windows 2000
• BootDisk Download and FAQ
  
  
• Warranty and Return policy
• Addonics product Warranty statement

Storage Tower / RAID System

• Storage Tower
• Mini Storage Tower
• A List of Storage Devices that can be Installed into the Storage Tower and Mini Storage Tower
• Simultaneous CD/DVD Duplication with Multilane Storage Tower
• Sliding Rails Installation Instructions

External CD/CDRW/DVD/DVDRW

• DVD DigiCopier
• Mobile DVD/CDRW
• Mobile CDRW
• Mobile DVD-R/RW
• Pocket DVD/CDRW
• Pocket CD98
• Pocket DVD
• Pocket CD-RW

DigiDrive / Flash Memory Readers

• DigiDrive General FAQ
• CF Adapter General FAQ
• MicroDrive Limitations with CF Adapters
• Securing Notebook CF Adapters
• Booting Operating Systems off a Compact Flash Card
• Installing Compact Flash into an Apple iPod
• Dual CF-SATA Hdd Adapter FAQ

Hard Drive Kits and External Enclosures

• External Drive Enclosure
• Combo Hard Drive
• Pocket ExDrive
• Jupiter and Jupiter Cipher Enclosure Jumper Settings
• Hitachi Serial ATA drive SATAII 3.0/ SATAI 1.5 Gb/s mode switching
• Saturn Enclosure Jumper Settings for use with Saturn IDE Drive Cradle
• Installing Cooling Fan on Diamond or Saturn Enclosures
• How to Initialize, Partition, and Format a New Hard Drive
• Diamond Enclosure Modification for Multiple Drive Bay Safety
• Saturn and Diamond Drive Enclosure Instructions – Front Bezel Mounted Fan
• Diamond Hard Drive Kit and Mobile Rack II LED Controls

Host Controllers

• Host Controllers
• Port Multiplier FAQ
• Booting a SATA Drive with an Existing Operating System from a SATA Host Controller
• Installing Windows XP from a SATA Host Controller
• Saturn or Jupiter SATA Enclosure and/or Cradle Compatibility Configuration with SiI3124 and SiI3132 chipset
• Disabling or Enabling Write Caching on SATA Controllers with Silicon Image Chipsets
• How to Daisy Chain Multiple Hardware Port Multipliers
• Vista Support with SATA Host Controllers
• Port Multiplier support under Linux
• Mac OS compatibility with Addonics SATA Host Controllers
• List of Sun OS x86 versions compatible with Addonics SATA Host Controllers
• List of Linux Distributions compatible with Addonics SATA Host Controllers
• Various types of RAID sets with Addonics products
• PCI card installation instructions

IO Converters / Adapters / Cables

• Toshiba 1.8" Converter Connections
• Serial ATA and eSATA Interface Connections: A Quick Tutorial
• How to Install the Slim ATAPI Mounting Bracket
• A list of devices and systems which have been reported by customers as having compatibility issues with the ExpressCard Cardbus Adapter (ADEXC34CB)

NAS and iSCSI Devices

• NASU2 Firmware Update
• NASU2 Backup software compatibility list
• NASU2 Questions and Answers
• Recover NASU2 with TFTP

USIB Universal Interface Cables

• Cardbus/PCMCIA under Windows
• PCMCIA under Redhat 5.2
• Firewire
• Serial ATA
• USB