Creative CD-R Drive User Guide On-line Version
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Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... vii Before You Begin............................................................................................ vii Recording Model and Serial Numbers.............................................. vii Checking System Requirements....................................................... viii Using this Guide.................................................................................
3 Connecting With Other Devices SCSI - An Overview......................................................................................3-2 SCSI Bus ........................................................................................................3-2 Setting Up Your Drive ...................................................................................3-4 Enabling and Disabling Jumpers ......................................................3-4 Setting an ID Number....................................
Introduction This User’s Guide provides you with information on how to install and operate your CDR4210 recordable drive. The CDR4210 recordable drive has: ❑ Double-speed data recording and quad-speed data reading capability. ❑ a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) — the newest data transfer format and standard. SCSI allows you to daisy chain your drive to seven other SCSI devices through a single connection. ❑ Orange Book (Part 2) format compliance.
Checking System Requirements The following are the minimum system requirements for your drive: ❑ A 486DX2 66Mhz with at least 8Mb of RAM (Pentium recommended for optimum performance) ❑ Windows 95 or Windows 3.X with Win32s version 1.30 If you are using a 16-bit operating system such as Windows 3.x, we recommend that you install Win32s into your system so that you can run 32-bit applications without any problems.
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. Appendix B, Glossary This appendix explains the technical terms used in this guide.
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 Use bold Command names, switches, and any text that must be entered exactly as it appears. italics Title of a book. Otherwise, when presented at the DOS command line, it is a placeholder that represents information you must provide.
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 Use A tip or some useful information. A warning.
2 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. We recommend you to use a Philip Number One screwdriver as it can be used in most systems. To avoid any damage to your drive, fasten the drive to your system using the M3x5mm screws provided.
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). Figure 2-3: CD Audio cable.
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. 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.
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. Figure 2-5: Vacating a drive bay. For more information on how to vacate a drive bay, refer to your computer system’s manual for assistance. If you require further help, please consult a technician.
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. Figure 2-6: Inserting your CD-R drive. You may need to use some force to insert your CD-R drive into your drive bay. However, please refrain from excessive force as this may damage your drive or other devices on your system.
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. Figure 2-8: Connecting SCSI cable to your CD-R drive.
4. If you have an audio card installed in your system, you can connect the 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.
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. For more information pertaining to your adapter card, refer to the documentation that comes with it. To install the adapter card: 1. Locate a vacant 16-bit slot in your system (see Figure 2-10). Figure 2-10: Locating a vacant slot.
2. Remove the metal plate from the slot you have chosen and put the screw aside (see Figure 2-11). 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.
4. Secure the adapter card to the expansion slot with the screw you removed from the metal plate (see Figure 2-13). Figure 2-13: Fastening the SCSI adapter card to your system. To connect the drive to the SCSI adapter card: 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.
2. If you have an audio card installed in your system, connect the CD Audio cable to the CD Audio connector on the audio card as shown in Figure 2-15. Figure 2-15: Connecting the CD Audio cable to the audio card. 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.
4. Slide the drives back into place and fasten them to your system as shown in Figure 2-16. Figure 2-16: Fastening the drives to your system. 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.
3 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. If not, proceed to the section “Setting Up Your Drive” on page 3-4.
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. ❑ SCSI devices will work in other systems and platforms such as Macintosh and UNIX.
❑ 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). Figure 3-2: Acceptable SCSI bus connections. Termination must occur wthin 4 inches of the ends of the SCSI bus. ❑ It does not make any difference where each ID is placed along the SCSI bus — that is, the ID numbers do not have to be in a sequential order.
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 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 3-3. Figure 3-3: An enabled jumper.
Setting an ID Number You can set an ID number for your drive by using the jumpers at the back of the drive. The figure below shows the default jumper setting. Figure 3-5: Default jumper setting. The jumpers have the following pin assignments shown in Table 3-1: Table 3-1: Jumper Pin Assignments.
Table 3-2: Possible SCSI ID Numbers. SCSI ID Number Pin 1,8 Pin 2,9 Pin 3,10 2 D E D 3 E E D 4 D D E 5 E D E 6 D E E 7 E E E 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. For more information regarding SCSI bus, refer to the section “SCSI Bus” on page 3-2.
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.
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.
2. Connect your external SCSI cable to your hard disk as shown in Figure 3-9. Make sure that you connect the SCSI cable to the hard disk and adapter card correctly. Figure 3-9: Connecting SCSI cable to the hard disk. Ensure the all your SCSI devices have a different SCSI 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.
4 Using Your CD-R Drive Once you have installed your CD-R drive and the device driver, you can proceed to use the 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. 3. After using the disc, press the Eject button to eject the disc from the disc tray.
❑ Do not use benzene or thinner to clean the housing. In addition, prevent chemicals such as insecticide from coming into contact with the housing. Either wipe the housing with a dry soft cloth or dampen the cloth with a mild detergent diluted with water. Maintaining Your Recordable CDs Recorable CDs are good storage mediums with a possible a shelf life of more than five years without any degradation in data. However, this durability and longevity depends on how careful you handle your discs.
❑ Avoid getting dust particles and fingerprint on your discs as they will damage the discs and cause reading and writing errors (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.
A 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 Storage Capacity 74-minute Disc Buffer Memory 1.0 Amp (Max.) on +5 Volts 1.5 Amp (Max.
Data Transfer Rate Normal Speed (for reading and wrting) 75 blocks/sec 150 KB/sec (Mode 1) 171 KB/sec (Mode 2) Double Speed (for reading and wrting) 150 blocks/sec 300 KB/sec (Mode 1) 342 KB/sec (Mode 2) Quad Speed (for reading) 300 blocks/sec 600 KB/sec(Mode 1) 684 KB/sec (Mode 2) Access Time (1/3 Stroke) Normal Speed Quad Speed 450 msec (Typical) 300 msec (Typical) MTBF 70,000 POH (Power On Hours) Error Rate Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 2 Form 1 Mode 2 Form 2 CD-Audio < 1 per 1012 < 1 per 109 < 1 per 101
Typical Audio Performance Number of Channels 2 Frequency Response Line-out Headphone 20 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB 100 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB Signal to Noise Ratio Line-out Headphone > 83 dB > 80 dB Total Harmonic Distortion (at 1 kHz) Line-out < 0.1% Headphone < 0.2 % Channel Separation (Typical) Line-out Headphone >65 dB >50 dB Output (Typical) Line-out Headphone 0.8 Vrms 0.
B Glossary Base I/O Address The address from which the interface card’s I/O addresses begin. See I/O Addresses. CD 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. Another name for Compact Disc - Digital Audio (CD-DA). The forerunner of all CD formats, this specification was established in 1980 by Sony and Philips.
CD-R Compact Disc - Recordable. 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. The CD-ROM standard was published in 1983 by Sony and Philips.
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. This standard is based on the CD-ROM/XA format. SCSI Small Computer System Interface. Pronounced “Scuzzy”.
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