Addonics Technologies Storage Tower multimedia tower User Manual

							 
ADDONICS TECHNOLOGIES 
Model: MMTPRO 
 
The MultiMedia Tower Pro comes with a port multiplier installed. For your 
system to see multiple individual drives, confirm with your system 
manufacturer that the eSATA port that came built-in with your system is 
Port Multiplier (PM) compatible. You may add a PM compatible eSATA 
port to your system with an add-on controller via PCI or PCI-Express slot 
on a Desktop or an ExpressCard slot on your Notebook. Controllers that 
use the Silicon Image 3132 or 3124 chipset are PM compatible and 
Addonics offer a family of these controllers. 
 
 
I.  Installing drives into the MultiMedia Tower Pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Step 1 
Using 3.5” SATA hard disk drive, slide the drive into the drive bay.  
 
For bay 1, close the front panel and using the key provided, turn the key 
lock to the Lock position. This will secure the drive and turn on the power 
to the hard drive. 
 
For bay 2, slide any micro SATA hard drive/SSD or CFast card installed 
in CFast-mSATA adapter. 
 
For bay 3, insert any Flash media:  
Compact Flash Type I and II, MicroDrive, Secure Digital (SD), SDHC (SD 
2.0), SDXC, Micro SD*, mini SD*, Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick Pro 
(MS Pro 4bit)*, Memory Stick Duo (MS Duo)*, Memory Stick Pro Duo (MS 
Pro Duo)*, Sony M2*, Multi Media Card (MMC & MMC Plus 4.2), Smart 
Media, xD, Reduced Size MMC (RS-MMC)*, CFast card (require 
Addonics CFast - mSATA adapter) into the correct slot on the reader 
 
Media priority for flash reader 
 
When more than one media is inside the internal SATA / USB DigiDrive 
during bootup, the media that gets detected first is according to the 
priority shown below 
1. Compact Flash 
2.  Smart Media / xD Picture card 
3.  MMC / SD 
4. Memory Stick 
 
The flash media will show up as a removable drive in Explorer. 
 
For bay 4, just push back the front panel to secure drive. There is no key 
lock for this bay. 
 
 
Note: It is recommended to fill up the MultiMedia Tower Pro with SATA 
drives from top to bottom. This is to help in identifying which drives 
connect to which ports for easier troubleshooting. 
 
 
 
 
 
 II.  Connecting the power cable and MultiMedia Tower Pro  
     to the computer 
a.  Connect the power cord provided from the wall outlet to the 
back of the MultiMedia Tower Pro. 
b.  Make sure the power is off (power LED light should be off). 
 
  
III. Power on/off control 
 
Turn on the power to the MultiMedia Tower Pro by pressing the power 
button on the front. The power green LED light should lit indicating the 
power is on. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Using the Port Multiplier mounted on the MultiMedia Tower Pro 
 
Note: The Port Multiplier will only work with Port Multiplier aware eSATA 
host controllers. It is compatible with eSATA host controllers using the 
Silicon Image Chip SiI3124 & SiI3132. 
 
When the port multiplier (PM) is connected to an eSATA Host controller 
with SiI3124 or SiI3132 chip, in the RAID BIOS of the host controller, you 
will only see one drive and that is the drive mounted in bay 1 of the 
MultiMedia Tower Pro. 
 
All the SATA drives mounted on the MultiMedia Tower Pro will show in 
the SATARAID5 Array Manager. 
 
For non-raid Silicon Image controller or using USB converters, the drives 
will be detected on the disk utility of the operating system. 
 
Step 1:  
Connect the eSATA cable that is connected to a PM-aware eSATA host 
controller to the eSATA port located at the back of the MultiMedia Tower 
Pro. 
 
Step 2:  
Turn ON the MultiMedia Tower Pro 
 
Step 3:  
For eSATA raid controllers using Silicon Image chips, use the 
SATARAID5 array manager to configure the external drives. 
For non-raid Silicon Image controller or using USB converters, the drives 
will be detected on the operating system. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Bay 3 flash media LED  Bay 2 HDD drive LED Power LED 
Power Switch
Bay 1 
Bay 2 
Bay 3 
Bay 4 Bay 1 HDD drive LED 
Bay 4 HDD drive LED