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  • Page 1 CD ROM Upgrade 4X CD-ROM Drives User Guide On-line Version...
  • Page 2 Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement.

  • Page 3: Regulatory Information

    Regulatory Information The following sections consist the notice for the USA and Canada. Notice for the USA FCC Part 15: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 4: Safety Information

    Safety Information CAUTION: This CD-ROM is intended to be installed by the user in a CSA/TUV/UL certified/listed IBM AT or compatible personal computers in the manufacturer’s defined operator access area. Check the equipment operating/installation manual and/or with the equipment manufacturer to verify/confirm if your equipment is suitable for user-installed application cards. ATTENTION: Cette CD-ROM est destinée à...

  • Page 5: Before You Begin

    Introduction This User’s Guide provides you with information to install and operate your CD-ROM drive. It also provides you with information to install and use QuickCD, an application that allows you to play audio CDs in DOS and Windows. Before You Begin Before you set up your package, please read the following carefully: Checking System Requirements Obtaining Latest Information...
  • Page 6 Making a Copy of Your Diskettes If you have not made a copy of the original diskettes, you should do so before installing the software in your system. Store your original diskettes in a safe place. Using this Guide This guide is arranged as follows: Chapter 1, “Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive”...

  • Page 7: Document Conventions

    Appendix B, “Resolving Hardware Conflicts” The base I/O address or IRQ line of the IDE CD-ROM interface card might conflict with the I/O address or IRQ line of other devices. Read this appendix on how to resolve these conflicts by changing your card’s jumpers.

  • Page 8: Upper Case

    Text Conventions The following text elements are used to help you distinguish different types of information presented in this guide: Table i: Text conventions used in this guide. Text Element bold Command names, switches, and any text that must be entered exactly as it appears. italics Title of a book.
  • Page 9 Icons In this guide, icons are used to highlight areas of text that require your attention. Table iii:Icons used in this guide. Icon Information or instructions that must not be taken lightly and should be noted. Cautions or warnings that you must pay attention to.
  • Page 10 Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive Your CD-ROM drive is just like a CD player. It allows you to play audio CDs, skip and stop a track, and eject the CD using software application (see Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD”). Furthermore, your drive supports the following features: Quad Speed Transfer Your drive can supply a continuous stream of information at 600 KB per second to the PC’s bus.

  • Page 11: Volume Control

    The Drive’s Front Panel This section describes the various controls on your drive’s front panel as shown in Figure 1-1. Figure 1-1: The front panel of your CD-ROM drive. Stereo Phone Jack The Stereo Phone Jack allows you to connect a pair of earphones to the drive.
  • Page 12 Play/Skip Button The Play/Skip button allows you to play audio CDs when the CD-ROM drive is connected to your system’s power supply. If your disc tray is ejected and loaded with a audio CD, pressing this button closes the tray and plays the audio CD. While your audio CD is playing, you can press this button to skip a track.
  • Page 13 When placing the disc onto the tray, hold the disc by the inner and outer edges with the disc label facing up as shown in Figure 1-2. Figure 1-2: Holding a disc. The disc tray can be locked using the LOCKCD.EXE utility (see the section “Locking the Disc Tray”...

  • Page 14: Digital Output Connector

    Please refrain from using excessive force to open the tray as this may damage your drive. Figure 1-4: Pulling out the tray. The Drive’s Rear Panel This section provides you with information on the connectors and jumpers found on your drive’s back panel as shown in Figure 1-5. Figure 1-5: The rear panel of your CD-ROM drive.
  • Page 15 CD Audio Connector The CD Audio Connector allows you to direct audio output from your CD-ROM drive to your audio card when it is connected using a CD audio cable. Master/Slave Jumper The Master/Slave Jumper (see Figure 1-6) allows you to set your drive as the Master or Slave drive.

  • Page 16: Setting Up Your Cd-Rom Drive

    Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive This chapter provides you with instructions to set up your CD-ROM drive. These instructions work: If you have purchased your CD-ROM drive as a stand-alone product or in a multimedia upgrade kit. If you have purchased your CD-ROM drive with a CD-ROM interface card.

  • Page 17: Installing Your Drive

    If you have purchased the drive with an IDE CD-ROM interface card, get the interface card ready (see Figure 2-2). Figure 2-2: IDE CD-ROM interface card. If you have an audio card installed in your system, get a CD audio cable ready (see Figure 2-3).

  • Page 18: Inserting Your Drive Into Your System

    Inserting Your Drive into Your System To insert your drive into your system: 1. Switch off your system and all peripheral devices. 2. Touch a metal plate on your system to ground yourself and discharge any static electricity. 3. Remove the cover from your system as illustrated in Figure 2-4.
  • Page 19 4. Locate a 5¼" drive bay for your CD-ROM drive. 5. Vacate a drive bay. If a disk drive is positioned above your vacant drive bay, loosen the screws of your disk drive and slide it out by two to three inches.
  • Page 20 6. Insert your CD-ROM drive into the vacant drive bay as shown in Figure 2-6. Do not slide the drive completely into the vacant drive bay. Leave some space at the rear so that it is easier for you to connect cables to your drive. Figure 2-6: Inserting your CD-ROM drive.
  • Page 21 2. Connect the power cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in Figure 2-7. Figure 2-7: Connecting power cable to your CD-ROM drive. 3. Connect the data cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in Figure 2-8. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of the IDE CD-ROM Data Connector.
  • Page 22 4. If you are connecting your drive to an audio card, connect the CD audio cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in Figure 2-9. Figure 2-9: Connecting CD audio cable to your CD-ROM drive. Connecting Cables to Your Card After connecting the cables to the CD-ROM’s rear panel, you need to connect these cables to your audio or IDE CD-ROM interface card.
  • Page 23 Connecting Cables to Your Audio Card To connect the CD audio and data cables to your audio card (which has an IDE CD-ROM interface): 1. Connect the data cable to your audio card as shown in Figure 2-10. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of the IDE CD-ROM Data Connector.
  • Page 24 3. Slide the drives back into place and fasten them to your system as shown in Figure 2-12. Figure 2-12: Fastening the drives to your system. 4. Switch on your system. 5. Proceed to the section “Installing the Software” in this chapter. Connecting Cables to Your IDE CD-ROM Interface Card If your drive comes with an IDE CD-ROM interface card, you need to install the interface card and connect it to your drive.
  • Page 25 To install the interface card: 1. Locate a vacant 16-bit slot in your system (see Figure 2-13). Figure 2-13: Locating a vacant slot. 2. Remove the metal plate from the slot you have chosen and put the screw aside (see Figure 2-14). Figure 2-14: Removing the metal plate from the slot.
  • Page 26 3. Align the IDE CD-ROM interface card’s gold-stripped connector with the expansion slot and gently lower it into the slot (see Figure 2-15). Figure 2-15: Inserting the IDE CD-ROM interface card. 4. Secure the interface card to the expansion slot with the screw you removed from the metal plate (see Figure 2-16).
  • Page 27 To connect the drive to the interface card: 1. Connect the data cable to your IDE CD-ROM interface card as shown in Figure 2-17. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of the IDE CD-ROM Data Connector. Figure 2-17: Connecting the data cable to the interface card.
  • Page 28 3. If you do not have an audio card installed in your system, connect a headphone or powered speakers to the Stereo Phone Jack on your drive’s front panel. Set the volume controls of your drive and powered speakers to minimum before powering on (or resetting) the system.
  • Page 29 Figure 2-20: Connecting data cable to your hard disk. Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-14...
  • Page 30 3. Connect the data cable to your hard disk controller card as shown in Figure 2-21. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of your Hard Disk Data Connector. Your hard disk controller card may differ from the one shown in Figure 2-21.
  • Page 31 4. If you have an audio card installed in your system, connect the audio cable to the CD Audio Connector on the audio card as shown in CD Figure 2-22. Figure 2-22: Connecting the CD audio cable to the audio card. 5.

  • Page 32: Installing The Software

    6. Slide the drives back into place and fasten them to your system as shown in Figure 2-23. Figure 2-23: Fastening the drives to your system. 7. Switch on your system. 8. Proceed to install the software. Installing the Software The following instructions show you how to install two drivers required to control your CD-ROM drive and an application that allows you to play audio CDs.

  • Page 33: Testing The Installation

    The installation program creates a directory to store the accompanying software. The program adds the following statements to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files respectively: AUTOEXEC.BAT: C:\path\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /M:8 /V CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=C:\path\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1E8,11 /V If you are connecting your drive to the hard disk controller card, the statement added to your CONFIG.SYS is DEVICE=C:\path\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1F0,14 /V For more information on these two statements, refer to the section...
  • Page 34 TESTCD does the following: Checks that the drive is properly set up. If you see a MSCDEX error message, check that SBIDE.SYS is properly installed (see the section “Changing the Driver Settings” in Chapter 4). Also, ensure that the data and power cables are properly connected to the CD-ROM drive.
  • Page 35 Using QuickCD QuickCD allows you to play audio CDs in DOS and Windows. Like your CD player, QuickCD is easy and fun to operate. This chapter provides you with information on: Running DOS QuickCD Running Windows QuickCD If you have not installed the software that comes with your audio card, you should install it before proceeding.
  • Page 36 3. At the DOS prompt, type QCD and press <Enter>. The QuickCD screen similar to Figure 3-1 appears. Figure 3-1: The QuickCD screen. If you have more than one drive, this program allows you to specify the desired drive at the DOS prompt. For example, to play the audio disc from your F drive, type QCD /D:F and press <Enter>.
  • Page 37 Next Track button Plays the next track. If it is the end of the CD, the first track is played. Previous Track button Plays the previous track. If it is the start of the CD, the last track is played. Fast Forward button Forwards the current track by 16 seconds.
  • Page 38 Quitting DOS QuickCD To quit DOS QuickCD, do one of the following: Press <Esc>. Click on the Title box. Running Windows QuickCD Before you can use Windows QuickCD, you need to Set it up in Windows Install the MCICDA.DRV driver that comes with your Windows 3.1 package.
  • Page 39 3. Select Program Item and choose OK. The Program Item Properties dialog box similar to Figure 3-3 appears. Figure 3-3: The Program Item Properties dialog box. 4. Type in the description as shown in Figure 3-3. 5. Choose OK. The QuickCD icon appears in the Accessories group window. To add MCICDA.DRV: 1.
  • Page 40 2. Double-click the Drivers icon in the Control Panel group window. The Drivers dialog box similar to Figure 3-5 appears. Figure 3-5: The Drivers dialog box. 3. Check that the statement [MCI] CD Audio appears in the Installed Drivers list box. If the statement [MCI] CD Audio appears in the Drivers dialog box, choose Close to exit the Drivers dialog box.
  • Page 41 6. Choose OK. 7. Restart Windows for the changes to take effect. Starting Windows QuickCD After you set up Windows QuickCD, you can run the program from your Accessories group window. To run Windows QuickCD: 1. Double-click the QuickCD icon in your Accessories group window.
  • Page 42 Play button Plays the track shown in the Display box. Stop button Stops the track. Pause button Pauses or resumes the track. Previous Track button Plays the previous track. If it is the start of the CD, the last track is played.
  • Page 43 Press <Tab> to choose a button. Press <Enter> to start the selected operation. Move the Slider thumb with the left or right arrow key to forward or rewind the current track. Using the Control Menu Box The Control Menu Box (top left corner of the control window) contains commands that allow you to perform various operations such as move, restore, and close the QuickCD control window.
  • Page 44 Play Plays the current track. Stop Stops the track. Pause Pauses or resumes the track. Skip Selects the next track and plays it. If it is the end of the CD, the first track is played. Always on Top Displays QuickCD on top of the active window.
  • Page 45 Minimize on play Minimizes QuickCD to an icon when playing audio CD. Stop playback on exit Stops an audio CD when you exit QuickCD. 3. Choose OK. Quitting Windows QuickCD To quit Windows QuickCD, do one of the following: Choose the On/Off button. Select Close from the Control menu.
  • Page 46 Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive This chapter comprises several sections to help you get more out of your CD-ROM drive. The chapter is organized as follows: Changing the Driver Settings This section describes the parameters of the drivers that control your CD-ROM drive and the available settings of each driver.
  • Page 47 mechanism created by Microsoft to read large files, and it gives your PC the capability to communicate with your CD-ROM drive. The presence of these two drivers are reflected by the following statements in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files after you run the installation program.
  • Page 48 The descriptions of the parameters are as follows: Parameter Description Specifies the directory where the driver is stored. path Specifies the name of the CD-ROM drive. This must be /D:device identical to the device name specified by the MSCDEX statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The installation default setting is MSCD001.
  • Page 49 MSCDEX.EXE Settings The syntax of the MSCDEX.EXE statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT is: C:\path\MSCDEX /D:device /M:xx [/L:drive] [/E] /V [ ] in the above statement refers to any optional parameters. After making changes to the statement, please remember to reboot your system for the changes to take effect. The descriptions of the parameters are as follows: Parameter Description...

  • Page 50: Locking The Disc Tray

    Running CDSETUP After you have installed your software, you can run CDSETUP to change the base I/O address and IRQ line of your IDE interface. To change the base I/O address and IRQ line of your card, you need to change the jumper setting on your audio or IDE CD-ROM interface card.
  • Page 51 d1, d2, d3, and d4 refer to the drives you want to lock. For example, to lock the disc trays for drives D, E, and F, type LOCKCD D: E: F: and press <Enter>. Once you have locked the tray, it can only be ejected if you run UNLOCKCD.EXE or restart the system.

  • Page 52: Enabling And Disabling Jumpers

    Enabling and Disabling Jumpers A jumper exists in two states: enabled or disabled. A jumper is enabled when a plastic hood called a jumper block is placed over the jumper’s two pins as shown in Figure 4-1. Figure 4-1: An enabled jumper. In contrast, a disabled jumper is one in which the jumper block is not placed over the jumper’s two pins as shown in Figure 4-2.
  • Page 53 2. Set your drive by placing the jumper blocks on the desired jumper as shown in Figure 4-3. Figure 4-3: The available ID Jumper settings. The jumper labeled CS is reserved and should not be used. Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive...

  • Page 54: Connecting The Drives

    Connecting the Drives After you have set your drive as the Master or Slave drive, you can connect it to your existing drive using a daisy-chain cable as shown in Figure 4-4. Figure 4-4: Daisy-chaining the drives. Make sure that you align the colored wire on the data cable to Pin 1 on your CD-ROM drives’...

  • Page 55: Technical Data

    Technical Data This appendix provides you with the technical specifications of your drive. Physical Dimensions Height 41.5 mm Width 146.0 mm Depth 189.0 mm Color PC white Performance Characteristics Buffer Memory 256 KB Data Transfer Rate Single Speed 150 KB/sec Quad Speed 600 KB/sec Access Time...

  • Page 56: Typical Audio Performance

    Power Supply 5 Volts ± 5% 12 Volts ± 10% Current Drain 0.35 Amp (Max.) ± 5 Volts 0.8 Amp (Max.) ± 12 Volts Typical Audio Performance Frequency Response 20 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB Signal to Noise Ratio 85 dB Total Harmonic Distortion (at 1 kHz) 0.2% (Typical) Channel Separation...

  • Page 57: Resolving Hardware Conflicts

    Resolving Hardware Conflicts This appendix provides you with information on the hardware settings of the IDE CD-ROM interface card. It shows you how to change the Base I/O address and IRQ line if conflicts occur between the IDE CD-ROM interface card and other devices. To resolve hardware conflicts between your audio card and other devices, read the documentation that comes with your audio card.
  • Page 58 Changing Base I/O Address If I/O address conflicts occur between the IDE CD-ROM interface card and other devices, you need to change the base I/O address of the IDE CD-ROM interface card or that of the conflicting device. Change the default base I/O address of the IDE CD-ROM interface card only when another device absolutely requires the I/O addresses assigned to the interface card.
  • Page 59 3. Place the jumper block on the interface card to select the desired base I/O address as shown in Figure B-1 . A jumper block is a removable plastic hood that fits over a pair of pins. Figure B-1: IDE Port settings for the IDE CD-ROM Interface. 4.
  • Page 60 Changing IRQ Line Four IRQ Lines are available for your IDE CD-ROM interface card: 10, 11 (factory default setting), 12 and 15. Refer to Table B-2 for the standard IRQ line assigned to the different IDE port. Table B-2: IRQ Lines for the respective IDE Port. IDE Port IRQ Lines Secondary...
  • Page 61 To change the IRQ line, enable the jumpers corresponding to the settings shown in Figure B-2 . Interface. Figure B-2: The available IRQ settings of your IDE CD-ROM To ensure that your changes to the IDE CD-ROM interface settings are effected, make corresponding changes to the hardware device driver settings.

  • Page 62: Troubleshooting C

    Troubleshooting This appendix helps you troubleshoot some common problems you might face. Problems with CD-ROM Drive Problem No sound from speakers. Causes 1. Audio cable is not connected properly or the volume is not adjusted to an audible level. 2. The drive might be faulty. 3.
  • Page 63 Problem Interface card or CD-ROM drive is not ready. Causes 1. The power or data cable is not connected. 2. MSCDEX.EXE or SBIDE.SYS is not loaded. 3. Some BIOS that include power management features use IRQ 12 or 15. Solutions 1.
  • Page 64 I do not know how to specify the settings for the MSCDEX driver when I have two or more CD-ROM drives using different device drivers in my system. For example, I have a Creative IDE and another CD-ROM drive connected to my system. Solution Modify the MSCDEX statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to include a second device name...
  • Page 65 Glossary CD-ROM/XA CD-ROM Extended Architecture. An extended CD-ROM format developed by Philips, Sony, and Microsoft that allows computer data, compressed audio data, and video/picture data to share a single track. Digital Audio Tape. A magnetic tape storage medium for the digital recording and playback of encoded audio information.
  • Page 66 Track A logical region of a disc. Each track can contain sound, animation, video, or other computer data. Glossary D-2...

  • Page 67: Technical Support

    This section shows where you can contact us: Inside U.S.A., Canada and South America Inside Europe Inside Asia Through Compuserve Inside U.S.A., Canada and South America CREATIVE LABS, INC. Technical Support 1523 Cimarron Plaza Stillwater OK 74075 U.S.A. : +405 742 6622...

  • Page 68: Inside Europe

    Inside Europe CREATIVE LABS (IRELAND) LTD. Technical Support Ballycoolin Business Park Blanchardstown Dublin 15 Ireland Ireland : +353 1 820 7555 : +353 1 820 5052 : +353 1 820 3784 (hst) : +353 1 820 3818 (Zyxel) France : +33 1 39 20 04 21...

  • Page 69: Inside Asia

    : 9:00 am-1:00 pm Sun & Public Holidays : Closed Through Compuserve To serve you better, we have created a Creative Labs Forum on Compuserve. Through this forum: You will have direct access to our company representatives who will be there to answer your questions.
  • Page 70 We have arranged for you to receive a free introductory Compuserve membership which includes: one free month of Compuserve’s Basic Services, a $15 introductory usage credit to explore the Creative Forum and Compuserve’s other Extended Services, a private User ID Number and Password, and a complimentary copy of CompuServe Magazine, Compuserve’s monthly computing publication.

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