I/O Magic 24X10X40 User Manual

Summary of 24X10X40

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide.

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 2 - 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 an...

  • Page 3: Copyright Statement

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 3 - danger invisible laser radiation when open avoid direct exposure to beam vorsicht insichtbare laserstrahlung wenn abdeckung geÖffnet nicht dem strahl aussetsen attention radiation du faisceau laser invisible en cas d’ouverture. Eviter toute exposition aux rayo...

  • Page 4: Fcc Compliance Statement

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 4 - 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...

  • Page 5: Table of Contents

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 5 - table of contents introduction.................................................................................... 6 s pecification ...........................................................................................................7 p ackage c ontents ...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 6 - 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 inte...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 7 - specification interface type: internal e-ide (enhanced ide) (conforms to atapi version 2.6). Writing speed 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 16x, 20x, 24x (cd-r). 4x, 8x, 10x (cd-rw). Reading speed max. 40x (cav). Loading method tray. Average access time: writing ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 8 - 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 • pentium class ...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 9 - 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...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 10 - 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 (se...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 11 - installing the drive 1 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. 2 remove the computer’s cover. Pl...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 12 - 5 connect the power supply cable into the dc input connector on the back of your drive. 6 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. Make sur...

  • Page 13: Driver Installation

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 13 - 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: 1 turn on your pc...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 14 - 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 ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 15 - • cd extra o 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). • mixed-mode o a cd including bo...

  • Page 16: Nero-Burning Rom

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 16 - 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...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 17 - 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 • create dos/mac hybrid discs (great for cross platform software developer...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 18 - 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. 1. ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 19 - 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 sa...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 20 - 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. You will be asked to giv...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 21 - 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 t...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 22 - 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. Your hard disk. In a third ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 23 - 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!). 3. Want to copy a cd-rom (no audio tracks) and trust t...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 24 - 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 i...

  • Page 25: Troubleshooting

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 25 - 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 • using ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 26 - 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 entr...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 27 - 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- rom drive, check in disc info and tools to make su...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 28 - 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 o cd-r...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 29 - 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.... Cd writing i...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 30 - 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 tha...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 31 - 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. The verify fails immediately because ...

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    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 32 - 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 t...

  • Page 33: Limited Warranty

    24x10x40 cd-rw drive user’s guide - 33 - 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...

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    R-cdrw241040-02 ver. 1.