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24X10X40
CD-RW Drive
USER'S GUIDE

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  • Page 1 24X10X40 CD-RW Drive USER’S GUIDE...
  • Page 2 User’s Guide Dear Customer: Congratulations on the purchase of your 24x10x40 CD-ReWritable drive. We all want to express our sincere gratitude for your decision to purchase our product, and to reaffirm our commitment to you of providing a product that is easy to install and easy to use.
  • Page 3 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT APPAREIL A LASER DE CLASSE 1 LASER KLASSE 1 LUOKAN 1 LASERLAITE PRODUIT LASER CATEGORIE 1 DANGER INVISIBLE LASER RADIATION WHEN OPEN AVOID DIRECT EXPOSURE TO BEAM VORSICHT INSICHTBARE LASERSTRAHLUNG WENN ABDECKUNG GEÖFFNET...
  • Page 4 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide FCC Compliance Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Table Of Contents Introduction..................6 ......................7 PECIFICATION .....................8 ACKAGE ONTENTS ....................8 YSTEM EQUIREMENTS Hardware Installation..............9 ....................11 NSTALLING RIVE Driver Installation ................13 2000/M /98/95 I ..............13 INDOWS NSTALLATION ....................13 INDOWS NT 4.0 I .................13 INDOWS NSTALLATION .....................14...
  • Page 6: Introduction

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the 24x10x40 CD-Rewriteable drive. We are sure that you will enjoy this product in the years to come. The CD- Rewriteable is a high performance IDE interface CD-RW drive, implementing the ATAPI IDE standard interface with 40X (read), 24x (write) and 10X (re- write).
  • Page 7: Specification

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Specification Internal E-IDE (Enhanced IDE) (conforms to ATAPI Interface Type: Version 2.6). 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 16x, 20x, 24x (CD-R). Writing Speed 4x, 8x, 10x (CD-RW). Reading Speed Max. 40x (CAV). Loading Method Tray.
  • Page 8: Package Contents

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Package Contents The 24x10x40 CD-Rewritable package contains the following items: • 24x10x40 CD-Rewritable Drive. • User’s Guide (This Document) • Registration Card • CD Mastering (burning) software. • Audio and Data Cables System Requirements •...
  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Handling Static-Sensitive Devices The 24x10x40 CD-Rewritable drive, like all electronic equipment, is static sensitive. Please take the proper precautions when handling the drive. Avoid touching the IDE connector pins as well as the audio connector pins and the jumper pins.
  • Page 10 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Setting-up the “Mode Select” Jumper On the rear panel of the CD-Rewritable drive, you will find three pairs of jumpers, CS (CSEL), SL (Slave) and MA (Master). Use the jumper cap to set the device to CS, SL or MA mode corresponding to your PC configuration (See Figure below).
  • Page 11: Installing The Drive

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Installing The Drive Turn off the PC. Make sure there is no power going to your computer prior to beginning the Hardware Installation. This is to help prevent harm to yourself as well as the risk of damage to your computer.
  • Page 12 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Connect the power supply cable into the DC input connector on the back of your drive. Connect the IDE cable into the E-IDE Interface connector on the back of your drive. Connect the 40-pin IDE cable into the CD-Rewritable drive’s E-IDE connector.
  • Page 13: Driver Installation

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Driver Installation Windows 2000/Me/98/95 Installation There is no need to install any CD-RW device driver under Windows 2000/Me/95/98/ and NT. After completing the hardware installation section of this manual, please follow the steps below: Turn on your PC to start-up your Windows 2000/Me/98/95 Operating System.
  • Page 14: Software Description

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Software Description The bundled mastering software gives you the complete solution for making CDs right from your desktop. Nero–Burning ROM, allows you to copy files from your computer to a recordable compact disc (Nero-Burning ROM uses a special write-once media that provides permanent data storage in a format that is readable on virtually all CD-Recordable (CD-R) and CD-ROM drives.
  • Page 15: Nero-Burning Rom Installation

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide • CD Extra A multisession CD containing audio tracks in the first session, and one CD- ROM XA data track in the second session. Additional characteristics are defined in the Blue Book standard (see Glossary for information).
  • Page 16: Nero-Burning Rom

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Nero-Burning ROM Nero is a very professional package that gives you many features not found in other recording software packages. In the following paragraphs, you’ll be introduce to the Nero-Burning ROM interface as well as step by step instructions on how to record CD-R / CD-RW media.
  • Page 17: Nero-Burning Rom Interface

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Nero-Burning ROM interface This is the screen that you’ll get when you first start Nero-Burn ROM. From here, you’ll be able to do the following: • Burn disc Images • Make CD Boot Discs •...
  • Page 18: How You Use Nero To Create And Record A Cd-Rom (Iso)

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide How you use Nero to create and record a CD-ROM (ISO) We will leave all the options with their default settings. For detailed information, please refer to the Reference Chapter in the manual. The manual is on the Nero-CD in the form of an Acrobat document.
  • Page 19: How You Use Nero To Create And Record An Audio Cd

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide How you use Nero to create and record an Audio CD To write your own Audio CD, you can choose between two methods: 1. The first one Compiling .CDA audio files on-the-fly allows you to extract audio files (.cda) on-the-fly from several CDs, without having to save...
  • Page 20 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide 6. Using drag & drop, compile the files by clicking on the desired files with the mouse and then dragging them into the audio compilation window. Note: By compiling the selected audio tracks, Nero will analyze the track’s information.
  • Page 21: Writing Mode: Disc-At-Once

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Writing mode: Disc-at-Once We will leave all the options with their default settings. For detailed information, please refer to the Reference Chapter in the Nero-Burning ROM manual. Follow carefully the instructions. 1. If the audio tracks you want to write to a CD are not in a Wav. Format, please save them first into this format (see Saving audio tracks).
  • Page 22: Duplicating A Cd

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Duplicating a CD You can choose between two methods if you want to copy a CD. 1. The image copy: The original CD will be read from the recorder and Nero will then create and save an image file, with the contents of your CD, to e.g.
  • Page 23: Choose "On The Fly" Copy If You

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Choose “On The Fly” copy if you: 1. Don’t have much time. 2. Don’t have enough free space on your hard disk (hint: 1 minute of audio takes about 10 MB and a CD image file may be several hundred MB long!).
  • Page 24: Saving Audio Tracks

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide 6. As a last step, you will see a message like "burn process was successful with 2x(300 KB/s)". 7. Finally, the CD will be ejected. 8. You may now check to see for yourself what was written onto your new CD by re-inserting the CD and clicking on the CD info icon.
  • Page 25: Troubleshooting

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Troubleshooting To help you identify and resolve some problems you may encounter with Nero-Burning ROM, this chapter provides the following information. • Suggestions for Resolving Common Problems • Error Message Descriptions • Other Program Messages •...
  • Page 26 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide If the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers are present but they have yellow exclamation marks, read this: The protected-mode driver for the hard disk controller was not properly initialised when you started Windows previously. When this occurs, a NOIDE entry is placed in the registry, preventing Windows from making future attempts to initialise the protected-mode driver.
  • Page 27 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Problems Reading Recordable CDs If you have successfully written a CD but have problems reading it, there are a number of possible reasons: If the CD can be read on the CD recorder but not on a standard CD- ♦...
  • Page 28 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide CD-ROM Drive Incompatibility with Recordable CDs Sometimes, it appears that you wrote a CD without trouble and can read it on your CD recorder. However, when you put it in a standard CD-ROM drive, the CD is ejected, or you get error messages such as “N...
  • Page 29: Error Message Descriptions

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Error Message Descriptions The following is a list of error messages you may encounter, along with descriptions and suggestions for resolving them. See also the online help for a listing of additional error messages. Buffer underrun at sector..
  • Page 30 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide The current CD already contains tracks and or sessions that are incompatible with the requested operation. This error appears if you are trying to add data in a different format to a CD that contains data, such as trying to add a CD-ROM XA session to a CD that contains a CD-ROM session.
  • Page 31: Other Program Messages

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide The selected CD track is longer than the image file. The verify fails immediately because the source ISO 9660 image and the ISO 9660 track on CD are not the same size. The selected CD track is shorter than the image file.
  • Page 32: Using The Online Help

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Loading files from previous track to make linked multisession..This message appears when you choose to make a linked multisession CD. During this process, the ISO 9660 file system information is loaded from the track you chose in the Load Contents tab so that it can be linked with the new files to be recorded.
  • Page 33: Limited Warranty

    24x10x40 CD-RW Drive User’s Guide Limited Warranty Hardware Limited Warranty This product is warranted to be free from failures due to defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date of original purchase as evidenced by a copy of the purchase receipt. During the warranty period, I/OMagic at its sole discretion will repair or replace at no charge, the product that, in its opinion, is defective.
  • Page 34 R-CDRW241040-02 Ver. 1...

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