Table of Contents

Read this first! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Supplied Accessories (AJ-PCD20P/AJ-PCD20E) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Parts and their Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Inserting a P2 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Write-protection of P2 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 To Connect the P2 drive to a Personal Computer for External Use . . . 8 To Mount the P2 drive in a Personal Computer 5-inch Bay . . . . . . . . 10 IEEE1394b Driver for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1) Before installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2) Installation of the IEEE1394b driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3) Confirmation of installation of the IEEE1394b driver . . . . . . . . . . . 13 IEEE1394b Driver for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Installation of the IEEE1394b driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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zIn these instructions, Microsoft® Windows®, Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP Professional are given as “Windows,” “Windows 2000” and “Windows XP Professional,” respectively.

zSimilarly, in these instructions, Macintosh® and Mac OS® X are given as “Macintosh” and “Mac OS X” respectively.

Software information for this product

Customer advisory: This product includes software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL); customers have the right to download, modify, and redistribute source code for this software.

Descriptions of the GPL and LGPL are stored on the installation CD included with this camera- recorder. See the folder named \LDOC. (The description is the original (written in English)). To download the relevant source code, visit

http://panasonic.biz/sav/.

Please note that we cannot answer any questions you may have about the content, etc. of any source code you may obtain from the above Web site.

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