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After you install the appropriate Panasonic driver, you can mount the cards as drives from
any of these devices:
Setting up a P2 Card Reader (Windows only)
Before using a P2 card reader with a Windows system, you need to set Autoplay options.
To set up a P2 card reader for the first time:
1. Make sure your Avid editing application is not running.
2. Make sure the appropriate driver is installed.
See “Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers” on page 394.
3. Connect the card reader to a USB port.
4. Insert a P2 card into each slot.
Each P2 card displays as a single lettered drive on the Windows desktop.
5. Open Windows Explorer, right-click a drive letter, and select Autoplay from the menu.
6. In the Autoplay dialog box, select “Take no action” and then “Always do the selected
action.
7. Repeat the last two steps for each drive letter associated with the reader.
Mounting P2 Cards as Drives
If you don’t have enough cards to fill all the slots, you can reuse a card in multiple slots to
perform the following drive letter setup.
(Windows only) Some card slots of the P2 drive might require drive letters that have already
been assigned to existing network drives. If your computer does not display all five card
slots as drives, reassign the network drives or restart your system.
Device Description
PCMCIA card slot Notebook computers typically include a PCMCIA card slot that will accept
individual P2 cards.
P2 drive Panasonic offers P2 card-reading peripherals such as the AJ-PCD10 memory
card drive. You can connect this drive, or card reader through a USB port, or
you can install it as an internal drive on a desktop PC. This card reader provides
access to five P2 cards at one time.
P2 camera or deck Panasonic cameras and decks, such as the AJ-SPD850, provide access to P2
cards through a USB port.