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Specification                                                                                                                    English 

 

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5. 

Technical Support 

For additional information or help during installation or normal operation of this drive not 
available in this manual or from our Web site, please contact our dealer where you have 
purchased this product for support. 
 
 
 

5.1. 

Firmware Upgrade 

The USB2.0 CD-RW drive uses Flash type firmware, a small piece of software that can 
be overwritten and updated. To ensure more reliable operations and enhanced 
performance of the drive, updates to the firmware will be made available. You can 
download and upgrade the latest version via our Web site regularly. 

   

Confirming the firmware version 

The Windows 9x users can confirm the firmware version on USB2.0 CD-RW drive 
property with Device Manager. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
For Windows 2000 users, the firmware version will not be displayed. Use your writing 
software to check it. 

Summary of Contents for ehw-5224u

Page 1: ...erence will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures y Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna y Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver y Con...

Page 2: ...re Installation 6 3 1 System Requirements 6 3 2 Hardware Instruction 7 Front Panel 7 Rear Panel 8 3 3 Installing USB2 0 CD RW drive 9 3 4 Supported CD R and CD RW Discs 11 Supported Discs 11 The handling of CD R and CD RW Discs 11 4 Software Installation 12 4 1 Before You Start 12 4 2 Installing Software 12 5 Technical Support 13 5 1 Firmware Upgrade 13 5 2 Troubleshooting 14 Appendix A Glossary 1...

Page 3: ... unusual smells sounds or smoke emanate from the device or if liquids enter the device switch the computer off immediately and unplug it from the power outlet y Make sure the computer is electrically grounded y When opening the computer always unplug the computer from the electrical outlet Do not touch the plug with wet hands y When used in a fan cooled system the device should not be exposed to t...

Page 4: ... writing speed by 1 using the ATIP information maker name model number etc pre recorded on disc 2 performing test writing to the OPC area at the inner circumference of the disc 3 getting the status of the servo follow check of the outer circumference of the disc checking of track shift due to lack of precision in cutting of the disc itself A combination of the above 1 2 and 3 enables better certai...

Page 5: ...E interface meets requirements of ATAPI Version 2 6 y Compliant with Orange Book Part II CD R and Part III Volume 2 V1 0 CD RW y JustLink has made auto avoidance against buffer under run errors possible y OPC 1 technology boosts recording reliability y Supports random UDF for easy writing to CD R RW discs y 2 MB Buffer Memory y Support PIO Mode4 and UDMA 3 Optional y Support disc diameters of 12 c...

Page 6: ...ause there are no links inserted between the data tracks Track At Once When many sessions are to be recorded onto a disc it is called Track At Once If there is space available on the disc additional data can be recorded onto it The advantages of this method include being able to record additional sessions onto a disc and using a CD ROM of backup data Refer to Multisession Session At Once A Session...

Page 7: ...t Once in that data is recorded in small fixed sectors of 64k bytes known as packets The advantages of this method are elimination in overhead per session and the elimination of buffer under run errors This method however cannot be utilized for audio data A number of formats such as UDF and CD R FS can be used when recording using the Packet Write method ...

Page 8: ...do not need to own one if your motherboard is equipped with an USB 2 0 controller on it y USB2 0 certified cable Included y Writing Software The drive requires CD writing software to write onto a CD R RW disc When you use the CD writing software make sure that it supports this drive y Hard Drive Space When writing to a CD R RW disc you will need a working area 50 to 100 MB free space on the hard d...

Page 9: ...e occurs the indicators blinks y Headphone Jack This jack is for connecting headphones or mini speakers y Play Next Button When a CD DA Music disc is loaded and the drive is not playing pressing this button will make the drive start playing from the 1 st track song When the drive is playing pressing this button will cause the drive to skip to the next track song y Volume Control This is used to ad...

Page 10: ...Connector Used to connect to the host computer s power supply DC 5V 12V y Power Switch Used to turn on or turn off USB2 0 CD RW y Audio Out Connector Used to connect to an external speaker earphone or amplifier y USB2 0 Connector Used to connect the USB certified cable to USB Host controller card Power Cord Connector Power Switch USB Connector Audio Out Connector ...

Page 11: ...W according to following steps Installing Your CD RW 1 First make sure the power of the drive is turned OFF 2 Plug the power cable and USB cable to your USB2 0 CD RW 3 Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB2 0 port of your computer 4 Connect the AC adapter to a properly grounded AC outlet ...

Page 12: ...Hardware Installation E 10 5 Now you may turn on the power and the system will detect the new device automatically This CD RW drive must be horizontally installed and operated ...

Page 13: ... This CD RW drive can write re write these discs at 4x 8x 10x 12x or 24x speed These discs can be read played by a CD RW drive that bears the High Speed CD RW logo The handling of CD R and CD RW Discs Please read the following regarding the handling of CD R and CD RW discs y Do not expose the discs to excessive heat such as in direct sunlight or near a heater Also avoid keeping them in a humid pla...

Page 14: ... not any operation of these applications will intrude the CD recording process and damage your disk y Defrag your HDD before any CD recording This is particularly important y When you write files to CD from HDD Defragment of HDD reallocates all the files so that these relevant files are placed in the nearby clusters This saves time and risks when Easy CD Creator is trying to search for the files y...

Page 15: ...ash type firmware a small piece of software that can be overwritten and updated To ensure more reliable operations and enhanced performance of the drive updates to the firmware will be made available You can download and upgrade the latest version via our Web site regularly Confirming the firmware version The Windows 9x users can confirm the firmware version on USB2 0 CD RW drive property with Dev...

Page 16: ... on your hard disk Wrote with another writing software y If different writing software is used comparing to the previous writing errors may occur Use always the same writing software Cannot add writing on CD RW Short of CD RW capacity y Capacity of CD R RW media is limited to 650MB 74 min type including lead in lead out and TOC data Use a new CD R RW media if the capacity is insufficient for the a...

Page 17: ...udio compact discs do not have computer data typing computer commands while an audio CD is in your drive will result in an error message Read error occurs Disc inserted upside down y Remove the disc from tray and reinsert it with the label side up Eccentric disc loaded y Replace it by another one Excessive noise when reading Seal attached on the surface y Detach the seal very carefully Don t make ...

Page 18: ...nition and correction function Mode 1 is especially used for computer data and employs a code for error correction Mode 2 is used with CD ROM XA and CD I with audio data and contains an error recognition code only CD ROM XA CD ROM Extended Architecture This CD format makes it possible to store computer data and audio or video data on one track The different types of data are linked to each other I...

Page 19: ... ISO Standard 9660 describes the construction of a CD ROM so that it may be read and processed by different types of operating systems Joliet This supplement to the standards comes from Microsoft and is supported by Windows 95 and Windows NT The CDs that are created under this standard are in conformity with ISO 9660 which allows long file names based on Unicode in additional directory structures ...

Page 20: ...Sony in 1981 Session An inter related writing procedure is defined as a session A session consists of the Lead In area the data area and the Lead Out area A CD can be written with several sessions This is then called a multi session CD in contrast to a single session CD that only contains one session A silver CD generally consists of one session TOC Contents of the Lead in this contains the addres...

Page 21: ...you cannot find USB2 0 CD RW in Explorer restart your computer or shut it down and then turn it on again y Is the CD RW receiving power properly You can test it by pressing eject button to see if the tray opens and closes y Is the USB2 0 cable connected properly Be careful to turn off your computer system before checking this item Check the connection to see if the USB2 0 connector well inserted Q...

Page 22: ...robably with the CD ROM drive Contact the manufacturer of the drive for updated drivers or patch files Q Applications cannot locate the CD in USB2 0 CD RW y Some programs only locate the first logical drive letter assigned to a CD ROM or a CD RW drive For example if your CD ROM drive is assigned drive D and CD RW is assigned drive E the program locates drive D only and will not locate drive E Thus...

Page 23: ...de 4 Max 16 7 MB sec DMA Max 16 7 MB sec UDMA Max 33 3 MB sec Audio Output Level Line output Headphone output 0 70V 0 1Vrms 0 80V 0 1Vrms Power Consumption Normal Operation Stand by 10 W or less 1 2 W or less Acoustic Noise Idle Operating Non operating 45 dB or less Sound Power Level 55 dB or less Sound Power Level 49 dB or less Sound Power Level 5V Power Supply Voltage Ripple Current DC 5V 5 50mV...

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