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DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software
not see the drive, here are a few more suggestions:
1. Quit Discribe and then cycle the power on your CD-
RW drive (turn it off for 20 seconds and then turn it
back on). Now reopen Discribe and see if the drive is
detected.
2. Turn off your Mac. Now turn off the CD-RW drive.
With everything off, unplug both ends of the USB ca-
ble, from the Mac and from the Spressa drive. Plug
both cables back in and then turn the CD-RW drive
back on.
Now boot the computer back up and reopen Discribe
and see if the CD-RW drive appears by clicking the
Recorder Information.
3. Try turning your CD-RW drive off, then Unplug the
CD-RW drive from the power outlet. Reboot your
Mac. After the Mac has completed its boot cycle, then
turn the CD-RW drive back on. After the CD-RW
drive’s yellow access light goes out, launch Discribe.
Click Discribe’s Recorder Information button, the
CD-RW drive should show up.
4. Try connecting the CD-RW drive directly to you
Mac rather than through a hub or your keyboard. If you
are going directly into your Mac try switching the
ports between the keyboard and the CD-RW drive.
Write Test Failure
The write test simulates writing data to the CD by ex-
actly duplicating the write process while holding the
recorder’s write laser in the off state. If this test is
failed, check the following:
Fragmentation
If the files to be recorded are fragmented (not written
cleanly and contiguously) on the hard drive, the time
