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CD's at up to 20X / 24X speed and writing CD-R or CD-RW discs at super 4X / 6X speed. CRW9420 / CRW9624 writes a 650 MB disc in about 18 / 12 minutes. High Versatility...
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High Compatibility The CRW9420 / CRW9624 supports all major CD formats, offering the user full backward-compatibility through the huge installed base of CD/ROM drives and media. What’s more, reordered CD/RW media can be played in a DVD player with multi-read feature, maintaining future compatibility.
CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION 1. Basic Construction The Compact Disc Recorder/ Rewriter Driver’s configuration, Function Block Diagram and Connector are shown below; Fig. 1 Compact Disc Rewritable Drive configuration...
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2. Connector The Connectors are located as shown below. The function of each parts are also described below. Fig. 2 Front...
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2.1 Disc Tray This is the tray for the disc. Place the disc on the ejected disc tray, then lightly push the tray (or push the eject button) and the CD will be loaded. Caution: Don' t use force to pull out or push in the disc tray. This might cause damage to the loading section of the drive.
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2.6 Emergency Eject hole When the drive can not eject the Disc Tray because of power failure, pushing the Emergency Eject hole of the Front Panel by the thin pole make drive be able to eject the Disc Tray. Caution: This function is only for emergency case. Do not use this function in usual case to prevent from mechanical damage.
2.10 Digital Audio Output (Not used) Used to connect to the sound card. (Digital signal.) It is not used with this drive. 2.11 Device Configuration Jumper Used when selecting the Device Configuration of E-IDE. Don’t use jumpers to change anything besides the Device Configuration, but keep the drive as initially set (“Master”...
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Installation Conditions: Mounting direction Horizontal / Vertical (Eject Button must be upside.) Installation Angle 15 degree or less Fig. 5 Installation Conditions Compatibility: Because Compact Disc do not perform error correction and defect alternation at writing, written data may have error. We recommend to verify the written disc if you are writing important data.
4. Cautions During Installation Dismantling the drive to attempt repairs or for other reasons is dangerous because the laser may radiate outside the unit. Do not disassemble the drive. Install the drive in accordance with the specifications. Be careful to avoid locations likely to cause vibration or shock.
wipe the drive, or moisten a cloth with neutral detergent diluted with water and use it to clean particularly dirty areas. Don' t cutoff the electric power while the drive is operating. Make sure IDE cable is shorter than 457.2mm. Make sure the system is powered off before connecting IDE cable.
8. How to Use the Discs When using CD-ROM discs, CD-R discs or CD-RW discs, don' t attach any stickers or labels to the discs. Using discs with them attached not only causes read and write errors, but data on the disc may be lost due to damage to the disc itself.
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Push a pin * straight into the emergency eject hole located to the right of the eject button to eject the Disc Tray. * Diameter: 1.5 to 1.9 mm Length: 80 to 100 mm...
SPECIFICATIONS 1. Functionality 1.1 Recording Data should be recorded on the optical disc in response to host computer command. 1. Drive receives necessary information such as logical block address, number of block and data to be recorded from the host computer. 2.
1.4 Spindle Motor Start/Stop This controller of the drive senses the disc to be set on the turn-table connected with the spindle motor and then starts to rotate the spindle motor, in response to the host computer command. 1.5 Seek Motor The controller of the drive starts to move the optical pick up carriage, in response to the host computer command.
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Write Read Play* " " " CD-DA " " CD-ROM " " " CD-Extra " " " CD-ROM XA " " Photo CD * " " CD-I * " " " CD-ROM + CD-DA " " " Video-CD Play means Audio play back. Read means Data Transfer. CD-I, Photo-CD requires special reader/player.
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5. Condition for use and Safety standard 5.1 Power Supply 5V Power Supply: Voltage DC5V 5.2 Environment Conditions Temperature: Operating 5~40 C (Without Fan) Non-Operating -30~65 C (Power OFF, Without disc) Humidity: Operating 5~90% (No Condensation) Non-Operating 5~95% (No Condensation)(Power OFF, Without disc) Vibration: Operating...
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Shock: Operating 2 x 9.8 m/s (2.0 G) or less (6msec. Half Sine) Non-Operating 40 x 9.8 m/s (40 G) or less (11msec. Half Sine) (Power OFF, Without disc) Altitude: Operating -305~3,048 m Dust: Class 3,000,000 or less (Typ.) Illuminance: 3,000 Lux or less 6.
7. Safety Standards Application Standard: UL, cUL, CE, CDRH Ratio Interference: Vcci-II, FCC-Class B, EN55022-Class B 8. Storage Conditions 8.1 Storage Conditions Temperature: -30 ~ 65 C (Max.) Humidity: 5 ~ 95% (No condensation) Temperature Gradient: 20%/Hour (Max.) Humidity Gradient: 10%/Hour (Max.) Vibration 1.0 x 9.8m/s...
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8.2 Transportation Condition Container: Cardboard Packing Case Means of Transportation: Mixed loading possible Stacking Layers: 6 or less Attached Articles: Caution...