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  • Page 1 Creative CD-R Drive 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 contain regulatory notices 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: Ce CD-ROM est destiné...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    CD Audio Connector.................1-4 Jumpers ....................1-5 SCSI Connector .................1-5 Power In Connector................1-5 Setting Up Your CD-R Drive Installing Your Drive ..................2-2 Inserting Your Drive into Your System ..........2-3 Connecting Cables to Your Drive’s Rear Panel .......2-5 Connecting Cables to Your SCSI Adapter Card......2-8...
  • Page 6 Setting an ID Number................3-5 Setting a Terminator ................3-6 Connecting Cables to An External Device...........3-7 Connecting to An External Hard Disk..........3-8 Using Your CD-R Drive Maintaining The CD-R drive ................4-1 Maintaining Your Recordable CDs...............4-2 Appendices Technical Specifications Physical Dimensions..................A-1 Performance Characteristics.................A-1 Compact Disc Formats .................A-2...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The assurance of compatibility with Creative’s earlier CD-R drive and other drives that comply and supports the same CD formats. Before You Begin Before you set up your SCSI CD-R drive, please read the following sections carefully: Recording Model and Serial Numbers Checking System Requirements...

  • Page 8: Checking System Requirements

    Chapter 1, Knowing Your CD-R Drive Before you install your drive, you should read this chapter to be more familiar with your CD-R drive. This chapter acquaints you with the various components and features of your drive. Chapter 2, Setting Up Your CD-R Drive After you have acquired a general understanding of your SCSI CD-R drive, you will be able to set up your drive easily and quickly.

  • Page 9: Document Conventions

    Chapter 4, Maintaining Your CD-R Drive This chapter describes how you can maintain your CD-R drive and discs. Appendix A, Technical Specifications If you want to know more about the physical dimensions, performance characteristics, and other specifications of your CD-R drive, you can refer to this appendix.
  • Page 10 Text Conventions The following text elements are used to help you distinguish among 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 11 Icons In this guide, icons are used to highlight areas of text that require your special attention. Table iii:Icons used in this guide. Icon A tip or some useful information. A warning.

  • Page 12: Setting Up Your Cd-R Drive

    Setting Up Your CD-R Drive This chapter provides you with instructions to set up your CD-R drive. Please get the following items ready before setting up your drive (see Figure 2-1): Figure 2-1: Items required for setting up your CD-R drive.

  • Page 13: Installing Your Drive

    If you have purchased your CD-R drive with Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) adapter card, get the adapter card ready (see Figure 2-2). Figure 2-2: SCSI adapter card. If you have an audio card installed in your system, get a CD Audio cable ready (see Figure 2-3).

  • Page 14: Inserting Your Drive Into Your System

    3. Remove the cover from your system as illustrated in Figure 2-4. If your computer differs from the one shown below, refer to your computer’s manual for more details. Figure 2-4: Removing the computer cover of your system. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-3...
  • Page 15 4. Locate and vacate a 5¼" drive bay for your CD-R drive. 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. See Figure 2-5.

  • Page 16: Connecting Cables To Your Drive's Rear Panel

    5. Insert your CD-R 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.
  • Page 17 2. Connect the power cable to the CD-R drive as shown in Figure 2-7. Figure 2-7: Connecting power cable to your CD-R drive. 3. Connect the SCSI cable to the CD-R drive as shown in Figure 2-8. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of the SCSI connector.
  • Page 18 CD Audio cable to your drive as shown in Figure 2-9. This will allow you to channel audio signals from your CD-R drive to your audio card. Figure 2-9: Connecting CD Audio cable to your CD-R drive. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-7...

  • Page 19: Connecting Cables To Your Scsi Adapter Card

    Connecting Cables to Your SCSI Adapter Card After connecting the cables to the CD-R drive’s rear panel, you need to connect these cables to your SCSI adapter card. If your drive comes with a SCSI adapter card, you need to install the adapter card and connect it to your drive.
  • Page 20 Figure 2-11: Removing the metal plate from the slot. 3. Align the adapter card’s gold-stripped connector with the expansion slot and firmly lower it into the slot (see Figure 2-12). Figure 2-12: Inserting the SCSI adapter card. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-9...
  • Page 21 1. Connect the SCSI cable to your adapter card as shown in Figure 2-14. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of the SCSI connector. Figure 2-14: Connecting the SCSI cable to the adapter card. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-10...
  • Page 22 Set the volume controls of your drive and powered speakers to minimum before powering on (or resetting) the system. This is to prevent possible damage to the headphone or speaker. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-11...
  • Page 23 5. Switch on your system. 6. Proceed to install EZ-SCSI 4.0, your SCSI driver software. Refer to the documentation that comes with EZ-SCSI. If you wish to connect your drive to other devices, refer to the next chapter. Setting Up Your CD-R Drive 2-12...

  • Page 24: Connecting With Other Devices

    Connecting With Other Devices You can set your SCSI CD-R drive so that it can be connected to a host of SCSI devices. If you need more general information regarding SCSI, refer to the section “SCSI - An Overview” on page 3-2.

  • Page 25: Scsi - An Overview

    SCSI - An Overview SCSI is a standard for connecting computer systems to other peripheral devices, such as hard disks, scanners, and CD-ROM drives and to other computer systems. Some of the main advantages of SCSI are as follows: SCSI supports up to seven devices per adapter card. This translates to savings in terms of slots, Interrupt Request (IRQ) lines, and Direct Memory Access (DMA) channels for your computer system.
  • Page 26 Each device on the SCSI bus should have at least 4 to 6 inches of cable between them (see Figure 3-1). The SCSI bus must have only two terminating devices. One at the begining, the other at the end of the SCSI bus (see Figure 3-2).

  • Page 27: Setting Up Your Drive

    Setting Up Your Drive To connect additional devices to your system, you will need to assign an individual SCSI ID number to all devices and terminate the end devices on the SCSI bus. This section shows you how to: Enable and Disable Jumpers Set an ID Set a Terminator Enabling and Disabling Jumpers...

  • Page 28: Setting An Id Number

    The first three pair of pins, pin 1,8, pin 2,9 and pin 3,10, allows you to set your device ID. Table 3-2 shows you the possible ID numbers you can set for your CD-R drive. Table 3-2: Possible SCSI ID Numbers.

  • Page 29: Setting A Terminator

    Table 3-2: Possible SCSI ID Numbers. SCSI ID Number 3,10 D represents a disabled jumper and E represents an enabled jumper. For example, to set your drive’s SCSI ID number at 1, enable pin 1,8 and disable pin2,9 and pin 3,10. Ensure that no two devices along the SCSI bus have the same ID number.

  • Page 30: Connecting Cables To An External Device

    Connecting Cables to An External Device If you wish to connect an external device to your SCSI drive, get ready an external SCSI cable (see Figure 3-7). Figure 3-7: An external SCSI cable. Ensure that your SCSI cable has a pair of matching connectors to fit the external SCSI connector of your adapter card and your external device.

  • Page 31: Connecting To An External Hard Disk

    If you have not backed up your hard disk, please do so before you proceed. To connect your CD-R drive with an external SCSI hard disk: 1. Connect the your CD-R drive to your adapter card as shown in Figure 3-8. Figure 3-8: Connecting your drive to the adapter card.
  • Page 32 ID. For more information pertaining to the hard disk and adapter card, refer to their individual documentation. 3. Slide your CD-R drive back into place and fasten it to your system. 4. Switch on your system and your external hard disk.

  • Page 33: Using Your Cd-R Drive

    To use the CD-R drive: 1. Switch on your computer. 2. If you wish to record a CD-R disc or playback an audio CD, load the CD on the disc tray. You must first install your CD recording software before you can proceed to use your drive to record on CD-R discs.

  • Page 34: Maintaining Your Recordable Cds

    Do not stack your discs one on top of the other as this might cause scratchs on your disc surface. If you are not using the discs, always remember to store them in their plastic casing. Using Your CD-R Drive 4-2...
  • Page 35 (see Figure 1-2 on page 1-3 for correct way of holding a disc). To remove the dust particles and fingerprints, use cleaning products that are nonflammable and nonabrasive. Using Your CD-R Drive 4-3...

  • Page 36: Technical Specifications

    Technical Specifications This appendix provides you with the technical specifications of your CD-R drive. Physical Dimensions Height 41.3 mm Width 146 mm Depth 203 mm Color PC white Performance Characteristics Power Supply 1.0 Amp (Max.) on +5 Volts 1.5 Amp (Max.) on +12 Volts...

  • Page 37: Compact Disc Formats

    Mode 2 Form 2 < 1 per 10 CD-Audio < 1 per 10 Compact Disc Formats Formats Supported CD-Audio CD-I CD-Plus CD-R CD-ROM CD-ROM/XA Photo CD Refer to Appendix B, for a detailed explanation of the various CD formats. Technical Specifications A-2...

  • Page 38: Typical Audio Performance

    Typical Audio Performance Number of Channels Frequency Response Line-out 20 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB Headphone 100 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB Signal to Noise Ratio Line-out > 83 dB Headphone > 80 dB Total Harmonic Distortion (at 1 kHz) Line-out <...

  • Page 39: Glossary

    Glossary Base I/O Address The address from which the interface card’s I/O addresses begin. See I/O Addresses. Compact Disc. An optical storage medium, 12cm in diameter, which has a much higher capacity (up to 650MB) but slower access speed than hard disks. CD-Audio Compact Disc - Audio.
  • Page 40 Information on this type of media is written using a laser-based desktop CD recorder. By contrast, information on commercially replicated compact discs is stamped using nickel masters. CD-R discs are gold in color, unlike silver-colored CD-Audio or CD-ROM discs. CD-ROM Compact Disc - Read Only Memory.
  • Page 41 Multi-session A multi-session disc has more than one set of information recorded onto it at different times. Space on the disc that is not used during a recording can be used to record more information at another time. Photo CD Released in 1990 by the Eastman Kodak company to provide a standard for storing high quality photographic images.

  • Page 42: Technical Support

    We are committed to giving you the best product as well as the best technical support. When you contact us, please have the following information: The model and serial numbers of your CD-R drive and other devices. Error message on the screen and how it came about.

  • Page 43: Inside U.s.a., Canada, And South America

    Inside U.S.A., Canada, and South America Inside Europe Inside Asia Through Internet Through CompuServe Inside U.S.A., Canada, and South America CREATIVE LABS, INC. Technical Support (405) 742 6622 (405) 742 6633 (405) 742 6660 FaxBack (408) 428 2389 Operating Hours (U.S.A. Central Time)

  • Page 44: 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) Belgium : +32 32300997 (French)

  • Page 45: Inside Asia

    In Europe, use the following number: +353 1 820 3667. Where not specified differently, please use the Irish Fax Number. Inside Asia CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD. Technical Support Blk 75, #01-04 Ayer Rajah Crescent Singapore 139953 +65 773 4048...

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