8. Try manually assigning a drive letter to your
RipGO!
device.
a. Right-click on the icon for
My Computer
and select
Properties
.
b. Click on the tab for
Device Manager
.
c. Click on the plus sign (+) next to
CDROM
.
d. Double-click on the drive icon for the
RipGO!
device.
e. Click on the tab for
Settings
.
f. Look for the box titled
Reserved Drive Letters
towards the bottom of the drive settings window.
Select the drive letter you want to use in the
Start Drive Letter
dialog box. Note that the same drive
letter should appear in the
End Drive Letter
dialog box.
g. Reboot your system for the drive letter to take effect.
9. Check your BIOS to ensure USB is enabled. Refer to your computer’s User’s Guide or manual for
directions.
NOTE: If you disconnect your RipGO! device and reconnect to the same USB port, the drive should be
reassigned the same drive letter automatically. If you reconnect to a different USB port, you
may have to manually reassign the drive a letter.
If the problem continues, there may be a driver conflict on your system. Please contact our technical
department at [email protected].
The RipGO! device performance seems slow.
Other USB devices connected at the same time as the
RipGO!
device can affect the
RipGO!
device’s
performance, especially digital cameras or scanners that are processing large amounts of data.
If you are using a hub to connect several devices to your computer, disconnect the other devices and
connect the device directly to the computer’s USB port.
Write Speeds
Your
RipGO!
device is capable of writing data to CD-R discs at 4x speed. This means it can write the
equivalent of 4 minutes of audio data in 1 minute. An audio CD can contain up to 20 minutes of audio
data. This means that in 4x mode, it will take around 5 minutes to write 20 minutes of audio data.
Writing non-audio data may be slower.
Average write speeds for a 4x CD writer:
• 4x for audio = 688 kb/second
• 4x for data = 600 kb/second (in other words, at 4x speed you can write about 34.8MB of data
per minute).
Any CD recorder will seem slow compared to an average Ultra DMA hard drive, which can write about
33MB per second.
The speed difference stems from the vast differences in technologies. The hard drive uses magnetic
technology to store its data. The CD recorder uses a laser to burn pits into a blank disc.
NOTE: The RipGO! device will only write at 4x speed if the DMA is enabled on the drive that you are
copying from. Refer to the information on DMA in the section called Buffer Underruns.
28
Device User’s Guide
Imation
