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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL MEDIA LAN Disk ME747AK-SI...
  • Page 2 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.
  • Page 3 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.

  • Page 4: Table Of 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 ..................
  • Page 5 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 ..........
  • Page 6 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 .....
  • Page 7 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 ..........
  • Page 8 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...

  • Page 9: Before You Get Started

    1. Before You Get Started 1.1 Introduction Media Lan Disk (ME747AK-SI) is a multiple-functions product：USB2.0 PNP storage device & 10/100 network storage device & MP4 player. With user friendly configuration setting (No any TCP/IP)、enjoy Movies、Photos and Music、one touch backup fast copy functions and supports both IDE & SATA HDD at the same time.

  • Page 10: Take A Look To The Me747Ak-Si

    1.3 Take a look to the ME747AK-SI...

  • Page 12: Easy Installation Guide

    2. Easy Installation Guide 2.1 What is in the Package Media Bank x 1 Power Adapter x 1、Power Adapter Cable x 1 Audio cable x 1、Video cable x 1 USB cable x 1、Ethernet Cable x 1 Remote control User Manual x 1、Software Install CD x 1 2.2 Specifications Application：Any 3.5 inch hard disk (IDE interface) Output Port：Composite video（NTSC/PAL）、S-video（NTSC/PAL）、Stereo Audio jack...

  • Page 13: Supported Hard Disk Formats

    2.3 Supported Hard Disk Formats USB Enclosure：FAT32、NTFS Media File Playback Mode：Only FAT32 LanShare Mode：FAT32、NTFS 2.4 Minimum System Requirements USB Mode： Windows® 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Server 2003（32bit） / 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...

  • Page 14: Supported Media Playback Formats

    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 Video：MPEG1（VCD、SVCD、DAT）、...

  • Page 15: Start To Assemble

    2.6 Start To Assemble Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4...

  • Page 16: Using Media Lan Disk

    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...
  • Page 17 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.
  • Page 18 4. Choose USB Mass Storage Device then click OK.
  • Page 19 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.

  • Page 20: Formatting Media Lan Disk In Fat32 File System Of Fully Capacity

    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.

  • Page 21: Otb Software Program Installation - One Touch Backup Function

    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.
  • Page 22 Notes： If you plug the ME747AK-SI into computer with USB, media file playback and network will not work.

  • Page 23: As A Media Player Machine

    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.

  • Page 24: Firmware Upgrade Procedures Of Media Lan

    ; 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.

  • Page 25: Tv Lock Function

    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 0000）when you first time use this function.

  • Page 27: Switching Between Media File Playback Mode And Network Storage Mode

    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 “...
  • Page 28 INFO See the information of the file. Previous section in Music or Video. PAUSE Interrupts file playback. Next section in Music or Video. LASTPAGE Jump to last page. PLAY Continue play back. NEXTPAGE Jump to next page. PREVIEW Previous file. STOP Terminate the selected mode.
  • Page 29 PLAY/OK Takes you to play or execute the current selection. Direction button to move cursor on the screen. DOWN Direction button to move cursor on the screen. LEFT Direction button to move cursor on the screen. RIGHT Direction button to move cursor on the screen. MAIN Takes you to the main menu.

  • Page 30: Starting Quick Media Play

    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：...

  • Page 31: Photo Play Mode

    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.
  • Page 32 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.
  • Page 33 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. MANUAL：You must press ’▲’ or ’▼’button to change your picture.
  • Page 34 AUTO：Pictures will change automatically.
  • Page 35 FOLDER REPEAT This item can setup folder repeat in slideshow. Press ’▲’ or ’▼’button on the remote control to select your play mode. ON：All photo files display automatically. OFF：Single photo file display automatically. INTERVAL TIME This item can setup interval time between every picture Press ’▲’...
  • Page 36 TRANSITION This item can setup transition between every picture, there are fourteen items let you to choose. FULL SCREEN：Change picture with full screen. TOP->BOTTOM：Change picture from top to bottom. BOTTOM->TOP：Change picture from bottom to top. T/B->CENTER：Change picture from top and bottom to center. CENTER->T/B：Change picture from center to top and bottom.
  • Page 37 BLIND:T->B：Change picture from top to bottom like blind. LEFT->RIGHT：Change picture from left to right. RIGHT->LEFT：Change picture from right to left. L/R->CENTER：Change picture from left and right to center. CENTER->L/R：Change picture from center to left and right. IMPLODE：Change picture from around to center. BLIND:L->R：Change picture from left to right like blind.
  • Page 38 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. ON：Video file will play automatically when you power on Media Bank. OFF：You must play video file manually.

  • Page 39: Music Play Mode

    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.
  • Page 40 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. （ Classic、Jazz、Rock、PoP、Ballad、 Dance）...
  • Page 41 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 ONE：The same song will play repeatedly. OFF ：...

  • Page 42: Video Play Mode

    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.
  • Page 43 ● 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. ●...

  • Page 44: File Library

    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...
  • Page 45 DELETE、RENAME、NEW FOLDER、CANCEL Press ’ INFO’ button on the remote control in the file library, you can delete、rename the file and folder, you also can create a new folder. DELETE：Delete file. RENAME：Create new file name of file. NEW FOLDER：Create a new folder. CANCEL：Cancel the function that you want to do...

  • Page 46: Other Setup

    5.5 OTHER SETUP You can execute the setup of OSD LANG、OSD MESSAGE and SETUP VALUES in PREFERENCES PAGE. OSD LANG：Choose the language that you want to use. PREVIEW：Preview window on/off. OSD MESSAGE：Turn on or turn off OSD MESSAGE. Notes：If you turn on this item, you can see the icon at your TV upper left corner when you execute REV or FWD function.

  • Page 48: Use Network Mode In Windows System

    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...

  • Page 49: Mound Your Media Lan Disk In Network Mode

    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...
  • Page 50 miniSAN Netdisk tool...
  • Page 51 1. miniSAN Launcher (desktop icon) activates and loads the miniSAN Application Tool onto the system tray. 2. miniSAN Application Tool performs the following functions： - Discover miniSAN Disk in local network - Select the miniSAN Disk - Mount miniSAN Disk to Access - Reload function for Read / Write Access and data refresh - Unmount a miniSAN Dsik - Display miniSAN Disk Mac Address...

  • Page 52: Discover Minisan Disks In Local Network

    6.2.1 Discover miniSAN Disks in local network. 1. Mouse Left Click on the miniSAN Device Management icon located on the system tray. 2. The miniSAN Application tool will pop on the desktop and auto discover all miniSAN Disk Mac Address in the network. 3.
  • Page 53 3. Select your target disk to access and Click Mount Disk. - Select the target disk and click mouse right to show the target disk function window. - Select Mount Disk for disk access. - If no other users mount the target disk to Read/Write mode, the miniSAN Disk is registered as Read /...
  • Page 54 Write Mode and show the green icon.
  • Page 55 - If others user mount the target disk to Read/Write mode, the miniSAN Disk is registered as Read Only Mode and show the blue icon.
  • Page 56 - If the miniSAN Disk manager set the Authentication Key, the tool will pop a register window for key registration. - If user didn’t have access key, the target disk will not be mounted. - If user entered the right access key and didn’t have the R/W key, the target disk just can mount to Read Only mode.
  • Page 57 Note: miniSAN Authentication Access Kay and Write Key is set on Disk Admin manager function page. (Please refer to chapter 5.3.2)

  • Page 58: Display Minisan Disk Used Capacity Status

    6.2.3 Display miniSAN Disk used capacity status. - miniSAN Disk manager will show the disk used capacity and used percentage icon when disk mounted.

  • Page 59: Minisan Disk Connection Status Modes

    6.2.4 miniSAN disk connection Status Modes miniSAN Device provides users with 4 basic Modes.
  • Page 60 Below is describing each of the miniSAN Disk Device Modes and the icons that correspond with each mode. Gray : Disable mode - miniSAN Disk is disabled from your computer. - miniSAN Disk can be enable to access mode if disk mount. Green : Access mode - User can access the miniSAN Disk using Read/Write mode.

  • Page 61: Disk Description Information

    6.2.5 Disk Description information. - Double click the target MAC address to type your disk description on the disk management tool. - The description information is only saved on the current PC.

  • Page 62: Simple Disk Volume Information

    6.2.6 Simple disk volume information - The disk management tool will show the disk volume information when disk mounted. - Mouse Left Click on the disk volume will link to the disk file manager.

  • Page 63: Reload Disk Function

    6.2.7 Reload Disk function - Select the target disk to press reload button. - Read Only mode disk can reload the disk to Read/Write mode by reload function. - Mounted R/W mode user didn’t have reload function. - User can’t reload to R/W mode when the R/W mode user is accessing the target disk. - User can’t reload to R/W mode when user don’t have R/W key registration.

  • Page 64: Minisan Target Disk Administration Functions

    6.3 miniSAN Target Disk Administration functions The miniSAN Disk support some functions for administrator manage. There are four pages of functions list are: - Disk information page - Access key lock functions page - miniSAN Disk transmission traffic Bandwidth check - Advanced function for target disk 6.3.1 Disk information page 1.
  • Page 65 5. Press on the “Enable Persistent Mount” icon will auto mount the target disk when disk valid. - The function will auto Enable when disk mounted when Option function “Mount disk as Persistent” (step 6.4.1) icon enable. - The function will auto Disable when disk un-mounted when Option function “Mount disk as Persistent”...

  • Page 66: Disk Access Key Lock Page

    6.3.2 Disk Access Key Lock page 1. Select the target disk and press the Admin button, the Admin pages will show on. 2. Press the Access page for access manager. 3. It will auto pop out a password login window for disk manager.
  • Page 67 4. Press the default login value “ miniSAN ”, and it will show the page to setup Admin Password and Authentication Key. 4-1. Press the right password if the password is set.

  • Page 69: Disk Transmission Traffic Bandwidth Checking

    5. Press Use Password icon to Enable/Disable the target disk access page login function. 6. User can change the target disk password by modifying password and confirm when enable “Use Password” function. 7. Press Authentication ON icon to Enable/Disable the target disk mount disk registration functions. (step6.2.2) 8.

  • Page 71: Advanced Function For Target Disk

    6.3.4 Advanced function for target disk Firmware Update Function 1. Open miniSAN Disk Management Tool. 2. If your disk is mounted, please unmount it.
  • Page 72 3. Right click mouse on your device icon and click Admin.
  • Page 73 4. Click Access page and enter miniSAN in the Login window.
  • Page 74 5. Access page will change as below.
  • Page 75 6. Please click Advanced page then click Update button.
  • Page 76 7. Please open the firmware file in the browse window then click Open. If the firmware file which you got from our web site, please choose your saved string.
  • Page 77 8. Then you will see the update message from miniSAN Management Tool. 9. You will see the message appear after update success. Please click OK to finish update process. Your device will reboot automatically, you do not need to power off and power on your enclosure.
  • Page 78 S.M.A.R.T Function This function displays all situation of S.M.A.R.T technology of your hard disk. Click S.M.A.R.T button the display window will appear.

  • Page 79: Minisan Disk Tool Option Functions

    6.4 miniSAN Disk Tool Option functions 1. Mouse Right Click on the miniSAN Device Management Icon located on the system tray. 2. Select the Options function to pop the Options window. 6.4.1 General function description 1. Press Auto disk Discovery icon to Enable/Disable periodical auto discovery disk function. 2.
  • Page 80 5. Press Confirm to Exit icon to enable/disable the confirm massage window when exit the miniSAN management tool. 6. Reserve Reject Logoff and Power Down icon for pop a confirm massage when PC power down or user logoff. 7. If user want to auto unmount disk when disk lost, press the Unmount disk automatically icon. 8.

  • Page 82: Network Function Description

    6.4.2 Network function description 1. Enable/Disable Block Network Adapter during disk Discovery.

  • Page 83: Gui Function Description

    6.4.3 GUI function description 1. Selection various skin by your like.

  • Page 84: Uninstall Minisan Driver

    6.5 Uninstall miniSAN Driver Before you uninstall the miniSAN Driver, you must close all applications using the miniSAN Device and unmount all disk and then close miniSAN Disk Management. 1. Close miniSAN Disk Management by selecting Exit. 2. Uninstall miniSAN Driver. - Go to Start >...
  • Page 85 3. The About window show the GUI version and Driver version. 4. Press OK for exit.

  • Page 86: Minisan Disk Manager Application Notes On Windows Os

    6.7 miniSAN Disk Manager Application Notes on Windows OS. 1. When Win2000 OS mounted miniSAN Disk in read only mode, the target disk NTFS partition could not be access by OS issue. 2. Because miniSAN driver is under Vista driver registration, it still must use Administrator execute to run the miniSAN management tool every time.
  • Page 88 3. If user want to direct to use un-register driver, user could modify the OS setting. - Select user account management in OS control management.
  • Page 89 - Press the administrator user account manage icon...
  • Page 90 - Unselect UAC function to disable un-register driver execute. 4. miniSAN Disk didn’t show up when used with USB.

  • Page 91: Faq

    1. I can see files when connected with the computer, but I can't see them on the TV？ A：Media LAN disk can only recognize FAT32 partitions. If the hard drive is partitioned using NTFS, No files can be display on the TV.
  • Page 92 5. Why can’t Media LAN Disk play some AVI files？ A：Some AVI files may use non-standard video codec. Media Bank support all standard AVI files only. 6. What is DivX® ? A：DivX is high quality and most commonly used video compression/decompression(codec) technology used for video distribution format.
  • Page 93 A：Please confirm what kind the standards of your TV and setup it correctly.（Please refer to page 27） miniSAN for Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003（32bit） / Vista X86 / Vista 64 bit 1. For Network mode of Media LAN Disk, do I need install driver into each computer for using Media LAN Disk？...
  • Page 94 3. How do I disconnect miniSAN Disk？ A：We always recommend using the Un-mount Disk option from your miniSAN Management. 4. Why can't I format my whole miniSAN Disk to FAT32？ A：Windows 2000/XP comes with a limitation of only 32GB partitions that it can create. This is the Windows limitation.

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