IpCAS USB Floppy Manual 

seconds) after LED 1 (red) turns off before you remove the USB Stick. 10. The end of a document has been damaged, how can something like that happen? That happens when there is not sufficient space on the virtual floppy to save the document. Suppose there is some data on your virtual floppy image and you still have 1MB memory space left. But the document to be saved has a total size of 1.28MB. The transfer of the document to the virtual floppy would be interrupted after saving 1MB. To avoid this make sure that your data to be written will act ...

seconds) after LED 1 (red) turns off before you remove the USB Stick. 10. The end of a document has been damaged, how can something like that happen? That happens when there is not sufficient space on the virtual floppy to save the document. Suppose there is some data on your virtual floppy image and you still have 1MB memory space left. But the document to be saved has a total size of 1.28MB. The transfer of the document to the virtual floppy would be interrupted after saving 1MB. To avoid this make sure that your data to be written will act ...

directory within a sequence. Negative example: Let us assume you have one directory for Floppy 00, one for 01 and one for 15. When you insert your USB Stick into the USB Floppy Disk Emulator, then you can change back and forth from Floppy 00 to 01. Switching to Floppy 15 is also possible, but not back again to Floppies 00 or 01, since there is a sequence gap. Switching from one virtual floppy to another Example: Let us assume you want to use the 4th floppy (i.e. Floppy 03) and the USB Stick is not yet connected to the USB Disk Emulator. ...

During the reading or writing process (data are being saved on or read from the virtual floppy) the red Busy LED lights up. During this process, do not under any circumstances remove the USB Stick or deploy the selection buttons (¶µ). Please always wait until a read or write process has been completed, before you continue, or else you may thereby cause data loss. 11. Safely remove USB Stick from USB Floppy Disk Emulator Only remove the USB Stick when the Busy LED (red) is not on. When a read/write process has just been completed, but the LED is still on for a momen ...

(c4) indicates that the disk drive is ready and is waiting for the USB Stick to be connected. The power LED is always on when the disk drive is supplied with sufficient voltage. Insert a customary USB Stick into the USB socket of the disk drive. Í After connecting it the disk drive searches for the already available virtual floppies. This is indicated by the fast succession of the numbers 00 to 99 in the display. If no virtual floppies are found on the USB Stick, the display stops at (00). 00 is the first floppy and has already been created automatically. The disk drive can b ...

available. 4. Front panel – description, connections LED 1 – Busy (red): lights up when system is reading or writing. LED 2 - Power (green): lights up when the voltage supply is connected. Display (2 digits): displays the status of the disk drive or the currently selected floppy (00 to 99). USB: USB socket (USB type A) to connect a USB Stick (the data carrier replacing the floppy disk). Subject to change without prior notice Date: 09-03-10 ipcas GmbH USB Floppy Disk Emulator – USB Floppy v0.2 P ...