10. WARNINGS

You should be careful when operating the adapters, in order to prevent any damage to your drive or your adapter. The following general rules apply to all of the XA1541, the XM1541, the XU1541 and the XUM1541 (ZoomFloppy) devices, unless specified otherwise.

• Do not plug or unplug any cables to the floppy drive when the drive is powered on or the XU1541, XUM1541, or ZoomFloppy is connected to a PC via USB, or the XA1541 is connected to the PC via the parallel port. When the USB based adapters are plugged into USB, they are powered on and could zap your drive if you connect or remove a floppy drive. This is also the same way you should treat floppy drives attached to your Commodore computers.
• Do not attach more than 4 floppy drives to a single ZoomFloppy. For the other adapters (XU1541, general XUM1541, XA1541 or XM1541), other limits may be valid. If you need more drives, get another ZoomFloppy or other adapter. The OpenCBM softare allows you to use more than one adapter at the same time (subject to PC performance limitations). These can be multiple adapters of the same type, or of different ones.
• Do not connect more than one drive to the XU1541, XUM1541, ZoomFloppy, or XAP1541/XMP1541 parallel ports. While there are multiple connectors, only one should be used at a time. Otherwise, chances are you will damage your floppy drive!
• When accessing floppy drives, all devices connected to the same IEC bus must be turned on. Even if you are only going to use one drive, for example, all other connected drives must also be turned on. Unpowered IEC devices may interfere with proper operation of other drives.
• Be careful of static electricity discharge when plugging/unplugging any electronic components. Consider getting a case for your XU1541, XUM1541 or ZoomFloppy board if you are concerned about the environment you will be using it on.