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8. Trouble

shooting

1Q: No display or only black squares on LCD display and the

unit does not boot when power on.

A: Please check the connection of power cable and the

power environment is normal.

B: Please check the fan of power supply. It should rotate if

power-on. If not, the power supply might have problem.

C: Turn off the power of duplicator, open the case to check

whether the power cable is fixed.

2Q: Error message shown on LED:

A: During operation like Copy, Emulate Write, compare and

verify, you may press MODE switch to abort the operation.
An Error message will be shown on the LCD. Some
writers, abort will cause the duplicator to hang up and you
have to re-start the power to return to normal operation.

B: Failed reading may cause the error message shown on

the LCD display. Change the master disc to try again.

C: During operation, if read error, buffer under run or writing

error occurs, the LCD will show error message like: Pass
xx, failed xx.

D: If there is no device connected and detected by duplicator

during power-on, the duplicator will show error message
on LCD before entering the main menu.

3Q: CD/DVD-ROM doesn’t read disc and shows Error

message.

A: Check the master disc for damage.
B: Try to use writer to read the master to see if the master is

defective or simply not compatible with CD/DVD-ROM.

Summary of Contents for CD-398

Page 1: ...MagicCD MagicDVD Series CD DVD Duplication Controller Card DVD 319 CD 398 DVD 399 DVD 668 DVD 688 Operation Manual Wytron Technology Co Ltd Aug 2005 http www wytron com tw e mail wytron wytron com tw ...

Page 2: ...Operation 17 5 Main Function 22 5 1 Copy 22 5 2 Copy Comp 23 5 3 Emulate 23 5 4 Emu Copy 24 5 5 Compare 24 5 6 Quick Erase 24 5 7 Verify 24 5 8 Load if HDD installed 25 5 9 External 25 6 Sub function 27 6 1 Setup 27 6 1 1 Start Writers 27 6 1 2 Write Method 28 ...

Page 3: ... G 31 6 1 10 CopyComp Eject 31 6 1 11 Read CDDA index0 31 6 1 12 Skip Read Error 31 6 1 13 MODE 2 Compare 32 6 1 14 Power On Wait 32 6 1 15 Show version 32 6 1 16 Go load trays 32 6 1 17 Transfer mode 33 6 1 18 Turbo Copycomp 34 6 1 19 Change Password 34 6 1 20 Startup Command 35 6 1 21 CD to CD if HDD installed 35 6 1 22 HDD Partition Size if HDD installed 36 ...

Page 4: ... 26 Grip before accept 39 6 1 27 Load Nonblank Disc if HDD installed 40 6 1 28 CDDA load speed if HDD installed 40 6 1 29 Language for DVD 6xx series only 40 6 2 Edit 41 6 3 Delete 46 6 4 Clear 46 6 5 Disc Info 46 6 6 Show Drive 46 6 7 Burn in 47 6 8 Update 48 6 9 Reset 49 7 Circuit drawing 50 8 Trouble shooting 54 9 Device support 56 10 Appendix 58 ...

Page 5: ...ailable for copying music tracks 7 Compatible with many brands of CD DVD writers such as Pioneer NEC Lite On Asus Sony etc IMPORTANT NOTE 1 Make sure voltage setting AC115 230V is correct 2 Stable input of power is required for normal operation 3 Duplicator should be placed in a clean cool working environment 4 Check clean the master and CD DVD discs before duplication starts 5 Do not touch record...

Page 6: ...r card has been tampered with Wytron will not accept to repair these controller cards even within warranty The controller card must be maintained in the original shipped status to comply the warranty condition no artificial modification allowed ...

Page 7: ...use of this product or documentation even if is advised of the possibility of such damages Wytron shall not be liable for any hardware used with the product including the costs of repairing replacing or recovering such hardware Wytron reserves the right to offer RMA service for non warranty items due to availability of service parts and production changes ...

Page 8: ...ers are in master mode The CD DVD ROM reader and hard drive optional have to be connected together at specific slot black besides the power connector on the controller card with hard drive in master mode and CD DVD ROM in slave The CD DVD ROM should be connected to the middle connector of an EIDE cable and the hard drive to the last connector If there is only a CD DVD ROM or hard drive installed t...

Page 9: ...9 Model DVD 688 EIDE data cables DRV 2 DRV 3 DRV 4 DRV 5 DRV 6 DRV 9 DRV 8 DVD 688 DRV 10 DRV 11 DRV 7 CD DVD ROM Hard drive Situation in max connection ...

Page 10: ...10 Model DVD 668 EIDE data cables Hard drive CD DVD ROM DVD 668 IDE 2 IDE 3 IDE 4 IDE 5 IDE 6 Situation in max connection ...

Page 11: ...11 Model CD 398 DVD 399 EIDE data cables IDE 2 IDE 3 IDE 4 IDE 5 IDE 6 CD 398 DVD 399 IDE 7 IDE 8 IDE 9 IDE 10 CD DVD ROM Hard drive Situation in max connection ...

Page 12: ...ble products An edge margin power supply unit might be workable in the very beginning but might be poor to supply sufficient power supply after a period of usage and then cause trouble 3 Please use a tower case with up to 12 slots 5 25 bay to setup the CD 398 DVD 399 to hold 9 pcs of writer 1 pc of CD ROM DVD ROM 1 pc of hard drive and 1 position for controller card itself Be noted that the size N...

Page 13: ... target number is 8 or less than 8 since the IDE 2 port is reserved only for 9 th writer 6 The IDE 1 or DRV 1 is for CD DVD ROM and hard drive If both CD DVD ROM and hard drive are connected please set the hard drive as master mode and ROM as slave mode If only one device is installed either ROM or hard drive please set it to master mode and be noted to connect it at the end of an EIDE data cable ...

Page 14: ...ires Power cable only with 5V red wire is not enough for the duplicating controller card 2 For connecting three targets please chain two drives per channel be noted the master device at end connector and slave device at middle connector on an EIDE cable ROM HDD at IDE 1 in master mode For connecting two targets on DVD 319 please free first the slave mode IDE 2 port 3 The USB connection is possible...

Page 15: ... and two black ground wires Power cable only with 5V red wire is not enough for the duplicating controller card 2 Please set two devices as master mode in each channel If the ROM and hard drive are both required in special status please replace the original cable with a new one which can chain both ROM and hard drive on same channel In this case please set hard drive to master and slave to ROM 3 B...

Page 16: ...e duplicator according to your need 5 Make sure that the voltage setting is correct 6 Customers can purchase the optional Wytron USB 2 0 module that enables you to link one of the writers in the duplicator to PC for external usage C Completed duplication system 1 Unpack the package of duplicator 2 Check the entire unit Return it if there is any mal function or damage found 3 Make sure that the vol...

Page 17: ...aster contained in hard drive It varies from masters or may not exist if there is no data stored No messages will be displayed on top right corner if hard drive is not installed AG Î Partition G in A group of hard drive 234M Î Capacity at AG partition in MB 14 23 Î Capacity at AG partition in minute 2 Different devices installed in duplicator will require different operation procedures including t...

Page 18: ...lso be ejected automatically Change another master disc for loading Master data can be stored in different partition switch to that particular partition Please refer to hdd partition group for loading d Switch to Copy by pressing MODE switch Place blank CD DVD discs into all the writers Duplicator will start copying when all writers detect the discs If you do not need to use all writers for copyin...

Page 19: ...h Do not press any switch during operation as interruption termination of operation will cause error and might cause the duplicator to hang up depend on writers installed The write once discs during operation will be ruined and might not be used again BB Without hard drive a Switch to Copy by pressing MODE switch Put blank discs into all writers and duplicator will start copying when all writers d...

Page 20: ...s can be changed according to your need Press MODE switch will eject those failed discs from writers or press each eject button on the writer to eject disc manually 3 Explanation of messages shown during operation Copy AB234M14 23 If CD writer installed C0036 25 32x24 00 38 Copy Current function AB234M24 32 AB partition with 234MB data 24 32 in total C0036 25 Copy to 36MB and 25MB data in memory b...

Page 21: ...ller card is equipped with 3 buttons one BACK extra push button is added than before for easier selection of function The BACK button will be used as backward selection of function only For example if users select the function by pressing the MODE button no matter in Main menu or Sub menu forwardly once if the MODE button is pressed too fast to miss the target function users can then press the BAC...

Page 22: ... the writers when all writers detect the CDs DVDs duplicator will start copying automatically When fewer copies are required place the required number of blank CD DVD discs into writers Till you see a number X of X start which matches the number of disc placed in the writer s press the GO switch manually to start the duplication When Copy is finished those discs passed will be ejected automaticall...

Page 23: ...xcept that data is not really written onto the disc The CD DVD discs will be remained blank when emulation is completed For rewritable discs that contain data emulate will do quick erase of all old data before emulation Thus never do Emulate function on rewritable discs that contain important data Be aware that DVD R disc cannot be emulated since the real copy will be used instead of emulation Ter...

Page 24: ...t be suitable for Emulate function 5 5 Compare This function does data comparison between master and target discs But only data CD DVD disc will be compared fully VCD movie DVD and music CD DVD will not be compared 5 6 Quick Erase This function is only used for a rewritable disc with data existed It would quickly erase the rewritable disc and then the data on it will be disappeared after running t...

Page 25: ...artition Please refer to HDD Partition Size for more detail Number of partitions available depends on the hard drive s capacity No pre formatting or software setup is required to install the hard drive with Wytron s controller card Each partition in hard drive will be labeled in alphabetical order starting from AA AB AC etc Current partition number can be selected under hdd partition group in the ...

Page 26: ... remote usage PC with Microsoft Windows 98 OS system will need the software driver to recognize the external USB device in duplicator Contact or download the software driver from Wytron if needed Duplicator will not be usable again after External function activated except for rebooting Please remove the external USB cable from duplicator first and then reboot duplicator when the standalone operati...

Page 27: ...gs listed below are summary for all possibility of devices installed and might not exist in your duplicator 6 1 1 Start Writers This setting controls the number of writer that will work in duplicator and normally it should be equal to the number of writers installed in duplicator Number of writers set is less than that actually installed will limit the working writers If 5 sets of writer are insta...

Page 28: ...son why it isn t set to max is that the CD ROM readers in the market cannot access the master disc as fast as the write speed if the write speed reaches 40X or above Sometimes maximum write speed will cause high failure rate that may be due to poor CD quality or unstable CD writing in high speed If installed CD ROM s reading speed can reach higher or even lower please increase or lower the CD writ...

Page 29: ... series like ATA1 0 ATA2 0 ATA3 0 ATA4 1 etc The number shown depends on the devices being detected by duplicator itself when booting The ATA1 0 means ATA device connected at IDE 1 with master mode setting 0 on device The ATA4 1 means ATA device connected at IDE 4 and with slave mode setting 1 Press MODE to change the setting and Go to exit 6 1 6 Autoloader if autoloader installed This duplicator ...

Page 30: ... the factory s default setting on controller card Press MODE to change the setting and GO to exit 6 1 7 Eject Disc This setting controls the ejection of discs by writer Three options are available Always means the writers will always eject the discs no matter whether operation is successful or failed No means all discs will remain in writers when job is done and you will have to eject discs from t...

Page 31: ...be ejected between copy and compare The default setting is Auto which means ejection of trays will depend on the writers If it supports auto ejection the tray will be ejected after copying If not the tray will not be ejected even when setting is Yes Press MODE switch to change and GO to exit 6 1 11 Read CDDA index0 The setting controls the copying of data existed in index0 Set to Yes will copy the...

Page 32: ... to change and GO to exit 6 1 14 Power On Wait The setting controls the detecting time in second for devices that connected to the duplicating controller card Default is 15 Press MODE switch to change and GO to exit 6 1 15 Show version The model number and BIOS version built date of BIOS will be shown on the display directly when switching to this position 6 1 16 Go load trays Normally when loadin...

Page 33: ...MA66 transfer mode With such writers installed set to UDMA66 option will improve the performance also the stability But be noted that if set to UDMA66 option all devices connected on controller card must feature with same UDMA66 spec including ROM and hard drive If one of the connected devices doesn t support the UDMA66 feature the system might become unstable or even hang Most of the writers in t...

Page 34: ...s the usage for those unauthorized people to use this machine Once set there will be password required when booting and only those users knowing the password can use this machine for operation Press the MODE button to Yes to activate the Change Password function and quit by pressing the GO button The LCD display will prompt you the New Password and then ask you to input the digit for Password 1 Yo...

Page 35: ...g stage will cause the hang of duplicator and freeze all operation User must restart the machine to input the correct password again 6 1 20 Startup Command This setting specifies the first function appeared when duplicator is turned on so as to avoid repeated selection all the time Press MODE switch to change and GO to exit 6 1 21 CD to CD if HDD installed This setting controls the source location...

Page 36: ...onnecting on controller card will be erased and overwritten after connection on the controller card and end user must avoid of using such hard drive with valuable data in it There are total four option settings under this function which are Auto default setting 850M 4 8G and 9 6G The default setting of this function is Auto which will handle the partition size by controller card itself during driv...

Page 37: ... After selection if partition size is changed physically the changing will be effective immediately when quitting of this function and the end user needs not to reboot the system When leaving this function the controller card will show you the message of Partition Size is xxxxx Total yyyy parts The xxxxx is the current selected partition size of this system and there will be total yyyy partition n...

Page 38: ...rd After selection each partition will have two letters to represent such as AC BD etc The AC means A group C partition and BD means B group D partition If you get a 40GB hard drive installed with the controller card you might have 42 partitions from AA to AZ and BA to BP There will be two groups in your hard drive A group contains 26 partitions and B group contains 16 The entire configuration wil...

Page 39: ... speed Sometimes maximum writing speed will cause higher failure rate that may be due to poor DVD quality or unstable DVD writing in high speed Under this circumstance please lower the writing speed under this setting to get higher successful rate On the contrary lower value setting will make the writing speed slower and confuse you as a problematic duplicator Press MODE to change the setting and ...

Page 40: ...o exit 6 1 28 CDDA load speed if HDD installed Normally when reading music track the CD DVD ROM drive will automatically lower the reading speed significantly Unstable reading situation may happen if we use the maximum speed of CD DVD ROM drive to read music track This will affect the quality of music CD DVD duplicated This setting change the speed of music track loading to enhance stability of mu...

Page 41: ...at once on the fly instant copy Duplicator will analyze the master disc and show total xx tracks on LCD display and finally stop at Begin track 0 Quit Press MODE switch to change the number of track song that you wish to start with and then press GO switch to quit After quitting the LCD display will stop at End track 0 Quit The number selected must be same or larger than that selected in Begin tra...

Page 42: ...ed to be collected the setting of Finalize must be No Press GO switch to quit and the duplicator will start to copy directly the selected tracks onto blank discs After finishing the copy the master disc will be ejected automatically and prompt you Pass in the LCD display You will note that the target discs in writers will not be ejected at this moment You can change another master disc in the CD D...

Page 43: ...ress GO switch to quit directly since first song number is 2 f Press MODE switch to number 4 at Begin track and press GO to quit g When End track is displayed on the LCD press GO switch to quit directly since the first song number is already 4 h Press MODE to number 6 at Begin track and quit i Press MODE to number 8 at End track and quit j Press GO switch directly to following Begin track and End ...

Page 44: ...ically tracks of this master disc b Load No 2 master disc by using EDIT function but keep the data stored in hard drive The is no need to do Clear function as described in Example 1 or you will loss the data of No 1 master disc c Repeat the other steps described in Example 1 Example 3 To make collection from two masters without hard drive installed No 1 master disc 2 5 7 13 songs No 2 master disc ...

Page 45: ...g Since there is still another master to be selected from leave the option as No and press Go to quit l Duplicator will start to copy those tracks you selected just now onto blank target discs in writers m After copy is finished duplicator will eject master and show Pass on LCD but those un finalized discs will still be remained in writers for further operation n Load No 2 master in ROM drive and ...

Page 46: ...r the current partition of hard drive Perform this function by pressing GO switch at Clear function and LCD will show Master cleared 6 5 Disc Info By using this function users can get information from the media discs that loaded in the writers such as max write speed capacity etc 6 6 Show Drive This setting shows the devices connected to the duplicator such as CD DVD ROM CD DVD writers and hard dr...

Page 47: ...mware version is B1HY The first digit after ATA is slot number and the digit behinds the dot is master and slave mode 0 for master and 1 for slave 6 7 Burn in This function is a burn in test function It will run the emulate write function continuously Between each cycle of emulate write the blank discs in writers will be ejected automatically and re insert again for continuous testing There is no ...

Page 48: ... you to restart the power Procedures to make the BIOS disc by yourself 1 Get the BIOS firmware from Wytron through e mail wytron wytron com tw Be careful not to use the wrong firmware as it will cause duplicator to hang up and not to function correctly 2 Unzip the BIOS firmware and write the file cdxxxx bin or dvdxxxx bin into the root directory on a blank CD DVD disc Session of the CD DVD has to ...

Page 49: ...down the MODE switch and turn on the power of duplicator simultaneously the MODE switch must be held down at least 5 seconds while turning on the power of duplicator 3 Release the MODE switch after the message of clear setup is shown on the top line of LCD display 4 If the clear setup message is not shown please repeat the whole procedure above but remain the finger on MODE switch all the time dur...

Page 50: ...50 7 Circuit drawing DVD 688 Controller Card LCD CONTROL HDD DVD ROM POWER ...

Page 51: ...51 DVD 668 Controller Card LCD CONTROL HDD CD DVD ROM POWER ...

Page 52: ...52 CD 398 DVD 399 Controller card LCD CONTROL COM2 COM1 CD DVD ROM HDD POWER ...

Page 53: ...53 DVD 319 Controller Card LCD CONTROL CD DVD ROM HDD WRITER POWER ...

Page 54: ... message will be shown on the LCD Some writers abort will cause the duplicator to hang up and you have to re start the power to return to normal operation B Failed reading may cause the error message shown on the LCD display Change the master disc to try again C During operation if read error buffer under run or writing error occurs the LCD will show error message like Pass xx failed xx D If there...

Page 55: ...test 6Q The failed rate is high A Lower the speed of writers and try again B Quality of blank disc is poor C Check for latest BIOS version if on new installed machine 7Q Can t boot up or fail to upgrade BIOS A Contact your dealer to solve the problem Please note you may be charged for this B Check the BIOS program is correct since normally customer will download wrong program or simply write the z...

Page 56: ...tall a hard drive and then copy from the hard drive to CD R For IDE DVD ROM 1 ASUS E616p2 E616p3 2 ATAPI compatible DVD ROM reader Note Normal ATAPI DVD ROM reader can roughly reach 6X of DVD burning If with 8X burning the speed will not be reached enough for on the fly direct burning For ASUS E616p2 p3 that supports the UDMA100 transfer mode 8X of on the fly direct burning can be reached if the U...

Page 57: ...r IDE DVD writer 1 Pioneer 106 A06 107 A07 108 A08 109 A09 110 2 Ricoh 5125A 3 Teac W501 4 Sony 500A 510A 520A 530A 700A 710A 720A 5 Plextor PX 504A PX 708A PX 712A 6 Sanyo Nichimen OptoRite DD0201 DD0203 DD0401 7 NEC IOMega 1100A 1300A 2500A 3500A 3520A 8 NU Ridata DDW 081 08041 9 IOMagic Gigabyte 1004 1008 GO W0404A 10 BenQ DW400A DW800A DW822A DW830A DW1600 1610 1620 1630 1640 11 LiteON 832S 16...

Page 58: ...ing the BIOS program from Wytron to make the technique support efficiently 1 Model number of controller card 2 Current BIOS version on controller card 3 Brand and model of Installed writer 4 Target number of installed writer 5 Brand and model of installed CD DVD ROM reader 6 Brand and model of installed HDD if existed 7 Drive connection situation on controller card 8 Any detailed explanation for t...

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